I think the chart is constructed by per-capita consumption in metro areas, so some small towns may be included if they are within the county of the metro area they used for this study. If they started adding rural small towns to the list, the people that put it together would have a whole lot more work to do on making their list. So that's probably why they don't. People are lazy
The data is probably from self-selected polls anyhow, so who knows how accurate they are?
Any poll you get to decide to take or not is not an accurate poll.
Also, on the same subject, there are people who spend a lot of time learning how to phrase polls to get the result you want. This is especially true with polls like, "on a one to five" where 5 is dissatisfied 1 to 4 will count as 'somewhat satisfied' when they interpret the poll.
I had seen lists like this other years, and I believe that one of them got sales data somehow and simply divided the sales by the population a viola!
That's what they should do, as much as they can.
It's probably unfair. If you live in my unincorporated township, like 90% of the households have people who drink fairly often.
The town that's supposed to consume more per capita (Budweiser products) is a mill town - that is remarkably tiny and all the nearby people go to that town. Plus, they regularly have workers in from other states to upgrade/build/maintain the mill. So, they'll often have 200 extra mill workers who are making good money and hundreds of miles from home.
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