Beer Consumption by State per Capita

[Bigsnake]

Are we looking at the same list? I followed the OP's original link and the per capita data puts Louisiana at 39.9 and a rank of fifth place, not 37.1 and a rank of ninth as shown above.

It looks like the entire sorted list was messed up somehow if you compare other states as well.

 

[menschmaschine]

I noticed "District of Columbia" wasn't included in the original list. Maybe that messed it up somehow. Here it is from the link and sorted by ranking:

1 North Dakota 45.3
2 New Hampshire 43.0
3 Nevada 42.2
4 Montana 41.8
5 Louisiana 39.9
6 South Dakota 39.2
7 Wisconsin 38.3
8 Wyoming 37.9
9 South Carolina 36.9
10 Delaware 36.7
11 Mississippi 36.7
12 Nebraska 36.4
13 New Mexico 36.4
14 Texas 36.2
15 Iowa 35.3
16 Arizona 34.0
17 Missouri 33.2
18 Ohio 32.7
19 Alaska 32.6
20 Colorado 32.4
21 Hawaii 32.4
22 Oregon 32.4
23 Florida 32.0
24 Illinois 32.0
25 Vermont 32.0
26 Alabama 31.9
27 West Virginia 31.7
28 Maine 31.6
29 District of Columbia 31.2
30 Kansas 31.1
31 Idaho 30.7
32 Pennsylvania 30.7
33 Minnesota 29.8
34 North Carolina 29.7
35 Oklahoma 29.7
36 Tennessee 29.5
37 Virginia 29.1
38 Washington 29.0
39 Georgia 28.8
40 Indiana 28.6
41 Massachusetts 28.0
42 Michigan 28.0
43 Arkansas 27.2
44 Rhode Island 27.2
45 California 26.9
46 Kentucky 26.6
47 Maryland 25.7
48 New Jersey 23.8
49 New York 23.7
50 Connecticut 23.3
51 Utah 21.1

 

[Buildmark]

being from Illinois, looks like I have some catching up to do.