Hmm, that wasn't nearly as cool as I thought it was going to be. This is the states split up 50:50 based on their relative consumption levels of wine and beer, as tracked down from this Matt Yglesias article.
For what it's worth, Obama leads Clinton 13-10 in wine states, and 12-7 in beer states. It should be noted that the entire Midwest is a swing region, though.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wine States versus Beer States
-- Nate Silver at 5:14 PM
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Minnesota is a wine state?
OT but is there a way to figure out how many young voters and African-American voters Clinton can afford to lose in swing states before she loses them to McCain?
lol. Funny.
I've never really subscribed to the whole wine-drinker / bear-drinker thing as the best measure of social / cultural status. It works fairly well in some areas, but I'm pretty sure that North Carolina falls more into what's typically considered the wine track that Montana, for instance. As someone who's never really understood the attraction of alcohol, I might be interested in seeing an overlay of "dry" track voters, but I'm not sure how you'd do that.
One "serving" of beer is much larger than a "serving" of wine.
It seems to me, it's apples & oranges, anyway. They are two different drinks, and there are plenty of people (me included) who like them both.
And what about coffee drinkers? And sweet tea drinkers? Yerba mate drinkers? Bottled water? Pepsi? Coke?
(Sidenote: when I was in Africa, I discovered that they drink prodigious amounts of Coca-cola. They probably drink more Coke than water. It also tasted slightly different.)
I'd like to see a gin drinkers vs. bourbon drinkers map.
And then there would be the pot smoker's map. This site doesn't calculate rates per capita, but it could be done indirectly from this CNN Money chart of potential tax revenue from a consumption tax on pot.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/taxes_marijuana/table.html
Hmmm. Interesting that Wisconsin is surrounded by "wine" states, but of course, Wisconsin is also home of the Brew City as well as a fairly large population of German ancestry.
Heh - cool map. Funny. Also interesting that the conclusion is that Obama actually won more of the beer states than of the wine states.
Someone else got the same idea though, and I'm afraid his/her maps are cooler: see here. You can toggle between the beer and wine maps.
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