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Yah. Everyone at our parties always had fun, drinking or not. We have many guys in our ranks that never drank or at least never drank much.
One thing to consider, that bar and tavern lobby is really powerful (at least here in Wisconsin - what does that say about us?), and they couldn't get the drinking age to stay low. I was nightclub manager for years and know precisely how much it hurt the industry around here.
By the way, the drinking age switched sate by state. It's a state's-rights issue, not a federal issue. The feds just put pressure on states with that highway funding stuff. To the best of my knowledge, Wisconsin NEVER benefitted from federal highway funding. I can tell you exactly when it changed in Wisconsin because I missed the cutoff by one month when it switched from 18 to 19, and two months when it went from 19 to 21. (Sucked to be me in the 80s)
I would love for Wisconsin to consider a Beer/Wine law for 18-21 year olds, and I think a .00 BAC DUI/DWI tolerance with a mandatory 1-year license suspension would be very appropriate.
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