# Which states had 21- drinking ages?

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**Created:** [February 15, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-states-had-21-drinking-ages/344628 "2006-02-15T14:48:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-states-had-21-drinking-ages/344628/21 "2006-02-16T04:53:49Z")

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Idaho used to have a drinking age of 19. I’m not sure when it went into effect, but I believe they didn’t raise it until forced to by the feds. It was certainly at that age in the early 70s, when I went to college in a town only 8 miles from the Idaho border.

Wisconsin used to have split drinking age the same as Colorado’s, as described by **InvisibleWombat** upthread. This was in effect at least as far back as the 40s, if I recall what my mother told me about it, correctly.

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