This is the article from last year
ABC News: Should the Legal Drinking Age Be 18?
Quote:
Debate Echoes Vietnam-Era Debate Over Drinking Age
McCardell hasn't gotten a lot of support thus far. A July Gallup poll suggests 77 percent of Americans would oppose a federal law to lower the drinking age.
The debate over the national drinking age echos the debate during the 1970s, when men as young as 18 years old were conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War but were not allowed to drink.
During that decade, 29 states lowered their drinking age to 18, 19 or 20. However, in the 1980s the debate over drinking centered on drunken drivers.
In 1984, the federal government passed a law that tied federal highway funds to raising the drinking age to 21.
By 1988, almost every state had raised its drinking age to 21, something McCardell said was done without adequate public debate or education about the effects of alcohol.
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I remember Georgia has been raising the drinking age slowly and raised to 21 by the deadline just because GA didn't need lots of Road funds. I remember that because I was able to continue going to bars every year while I can't in other state like NY till I am already 21.
After they have raised the age to 21, I saw more problems and more "busts" at NTID than before. It also killed the famous "Cellar" after NY raised to 21 right away.