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Old 12-26-2010, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Boomer View Post

And hi chuckinca,

That thing about Wisconsin, the pop-soda divide. -- I bet it has something to do with who settled where, but I don't know anything about Wisconsin. So I was wondering what the pattern was and thought there might be someone among us here on TOTV who could explain it.

Eastern Wisconsin and Eastern Missouri are adjacent to large beer producing centers of Milwaukee and St Louis and both say soda. New York and Eastern Pennsylvania are large beer producing areas around NYC and Philly and say soda. All these areas have large German populations.

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