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The causality could go Dry County -> Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) Or it could be Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship

The causality could go Dry County -> Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) Or it could be Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) -> Dry County You’d need to do historical research to see if the bad relationship preceded the alcohol ban. A first pass would be historical murder rates seeing as drunkenness leads to violence, which leads to deaths.

sfRattan 7y ago
Or it could go: Dry county -> social drinkers must drive to the bar in the next county over, or even several counties over -> drunk drivers from the dry county spend more time and distance on roads than they would otherwise -> higher instance of drunk driving related accidents in the dry county.