re: Alcohol for adults at kid's birthday party

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Yup. 

It's absolutely cultural. 

For generations those people lived in dry counties and in social environments where drinking was frowned upon and viewed the same way as crack and heroin. 

I have two cousins from two different aunts and uncles that grew up in the Dallas area and moved here to New Orleans for a period of time. Both of them came here perfectly normal people with jobs and money. Both of them left unemployed, penniless, with an alcohol problem in a demolition derby car. As soon as they got back to Dallas their life straightened up again within a few months. 

This is why people from those areas frown on drinking. Their people just can't handle their alcohol. It was never part of their culture and so it's a shock to their system when they're thrown into that fire. They just can't handle freedom the way we can.

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Alcohol was ubiquitous among the Scots-Irish pioneers who settled the South and Mid-Atlantic. They invented Bourbon as a convenient way to market their corn crop-A couple of jugs on a mule instead of wagonloads over the primitive trails.

The per capita consumption of alcohol in the 18th and 19th century was astounding. Gallons per year. The Protestant religious revivals that broke out were in part a reaction to the social dysfunction related to alcohol in early American society. The public disapproval of alcohol in much of the south is a vestige of that. People drink, but it's not celebrated like it is in areas of Catholic influence. That's not such a bad thing IYAM

I grew up in Wisconsin (which is pretty similar to LA in regards to alcohol) and I don’t remember any family party or really any event of basically any type that didn’t include alcohol for adults unless it was at a school.

I’m wracking my brain and I’m coming up empty

I can’t think of any birthday for any one of my kids where me and my FIL weren’t drinking beer.

Good post.

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