Maybe it's because I live in Wisconsin, in a college town no less, but I'm having a hard time recalling the last time I've seen "normal" drinkers.
Instead, I'm bombarded with messages of "Wine O'Clock", "Beer-mergencies", slamming shots of hard liquor, OWI (something you can be arrested for more than 5 times here without being charged with a real crime, btw...) and pretty much every form of ritualistic self-poisoning that the majority of the populace believes is "normal".
I'll take my hangover-free mornings, my clear head and my healthy liver over all that any day of the week.