FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. The Red dots in the map represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest of America takes their drinking really seriously.
Starting in Illinois, the beer belly expands up into Wisconsin and first spreads westward through Iowa/Minnesota and then engulfs Nebraska, and the Dakotas before petering out (like a pair of love handles) in Wyoming and Montana.
Anyone who lives in the area care to confirm? :)
Read more here.