Montana leads nation in per-capita bar spending
It's a sobering statistic for New Year's Eve.
OK, "sober" might not have anything to do with it.
But Montana, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's economic census, leads the nation in per-capita spending at drinking establishments.
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By dividing the revenue for alcohol sales at drinking establishments by the state's population, it works out to a figure of $258. That's what every man, woman and child in the state would have spent in drinking establishments in 2002 if every man, woman and child in the state drank.
Of course, not every man or woman, and hopefully none of the children, spent that amount in bars, which means some of us spent a lot more than $258.
The national average for per-capita spending at drinking establishments, by the way, was just $52. Forty-three states didn't even reach triple digits.
Only Montana, Nevada, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Wisconsin were over $100 in per-capita spending.
Yes, there we have a big part of Montana culture, the drinking culture. Ain't it grand.
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. Jeffrey Bernard
