So, I've stopped drinking

[fredtoast]

(06-20-2015, 05:26 PM)Stewy Wrote: And having grown up in Appalachia, I can attest that my analysis was fact, not prejudice.

It was completely prejudice.  the fact that you lived there does not change that.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance98/CONS12.htm#fig6

Per capita alcohol consumption is much higher in many regions of the coiuntry than Appalachia. Plus drinking and having sex is big to teenagers in every part of the country, not just Appalachia.

Sound to me like you were just a social outcast loser when you were growing up and try to blame it on the region where you lived instead of your own shortcomings.