Eh, can only speak for how it is in the South.
They mostly just drink all the time, with the notable exception of Univ of Alabama.
Look up "The Machine". Rabbit hole warning. It was a straight line from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and state gov't in Montgomery.
I wonder if Sessions was in the Machine.
Georgia has had such a crazy population increase that it's insanely hard to get into UGA for white boys. Basically have to go to a smaller college first then transfer in. High school kids in metro Atlanta are walking nervous breakdowns trying to get into UGA. Used to be that going to Lovett, Woodward Academy or Pace was an automatic in. Not anymore. "Muh diversity" and all that.