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What Democrats and Republicans Drink on Mardi Gras
One party prefers beer, the other prefers cognac. Guess which is which.
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Today, millions of Americans—especially New Orleanians—will celebrate Mardi Gras by partaking of their favorite alcoholic beverage. In many cases, lots of beverages. As with so much else in American life these days, what people choose to drink on Mardi Gras has a lot to do with their political preferences.
In light of the holiday, Will Feltus, a senior vice president for research at National Media, a political ad-buying firm, crunched two years’ worth of Scarborough Research data to examine the alcoholic polarization of the American electorate and figure out who drinks what.