Binge Alcohol Drinking and Suicide Deaths by State

I recall Charles Bukowski once said something about drinking being the slowest form of suicide, as well as the most cowardly and the most noble. Perhaps that points to a correlation between not just suicide and binge drinking, but between binge drinking and suicidal tendencies. Too bad that's so hard to quantify.
This is a really great graph. I hope you can find that age- and gender-specific information you were looking for. I'll definitely keep my eyes out for it.
Keep on keepin' on. Great stuff!

Your graph has been featured on the homepage. Thanks for swiveling! =)

This is an incredible graph. 94% correlated and look how closely the lines track. It is an amazing insight into the data.

Thank you! :) Since this graph was made using state-by-state data, I'd be curious to know how much of it is self-selective -- that is, do people with certain traits tend towards living in one geographic locality over another; how much interpersonal gravitation by habit goes on (ie, the "birds of a feather flock together" truism), and how well does that correlate to, for lack of a better term, "flock migration". Examples of this in modern times might be the Haight-Ashbury phenomenon in the 60s/70s, the grunge movement in Seattle, the extreme localization of teenage runaways in Portland. Does moving to a geographic locality trend towards a habit, do the people with the habits trend towards a geographic locality, or does the truth really lie somewhere in between?