Photo by Mr. T in DC.

There’s no doubt that Washington has always been a city which loves its booze — but that’s even more true today, as research shows that people in America are drinking more alcohol than they have in decades.

According to survey data reported in USA Today, 67 percent of Americans said they drank alcoholic beverages in 2010, which is the highest percentage recorded since the ’70s. And though D.C. might not be New Hampshire — a state whose residents put down an average of 6.7 gallons of wine and 3.8 gallons of liquor last year, according to data from lobbying firm The Beer Institute (note to self: send them my resume) — we’re still holding down the fort as a bastion of spiritous consumption among one of the dryest patches of the country:

Regionally, New Englanders and people in the far West and the Upper Plains states drink the most, according to the Beer Institute, a Washington-based trade group. Texas, the Deep South and the Mid-Atlantic (except for Washington, D.C.) were among the driest parts of the country.

Cheers.