[aft_lizard]

I heard awhile back one of the last dry counties in Kansas was actually allowing restaurants to serve liquor! The travesty.

[Charliehorse]

Actually, the dry/wet elections are by precincts.

[Young Werther]

The only downside is now that you can go to my local 7/11 to pick up a beer but...The d@mn bottle ends up cast aside in the street!

Littering is not manly..so Hold muh beer bottle till you get home then recycle!!!

[TommyDale]

Does this mean the end of the "private club" ripoff at the bars, to make a few extra bucks and circumvent the liquor laws?

[Gordongekko909]

Hooray! Maybe, sooner or later, they'll actually let bars stay open past 2 am! I tells ya, when I evacuated to Houston during Katrina, I had the hardest time getting my hands on booze since I turned 21!

Of course, your average New Orleanian is on a first-name basis with at least half a dozen bartenders by the time s/he turns 21, or in some cases 18, but y'know...

[SmoothTalker]

Good. I hate the nanny-state.

[vetvetdoug]

Impact and Abilene...best Texas example.

[TexasCajun]

Is there any other area in the country, besides La., that allows Drive-thru Daiquiri stores?

In La., the grocery stores have liquor isles and no restrictions on Sunday purchases.

In Tx., liguor is sold by liguor stores, closed on Sundays.

In Tx., beer & wine sold in grocery stores and can be sold after 12:00pm on Sunday.

[Xenalyte]

From her house it's a 10-mile jaunt to the metal-sided beer barns and package stores in either of two adjoining wet counties. ''We don't buy a lot and store it, so when we're planning a casual drink with friends it's a 40-minute trip," she said. ''It's just inconvenient."

Sarah dear, even though you know the word "planning," it's pretty clear you don't know what it means.

Instead of making that 40-minute trip every time you want a drink, Sarah dear, you should make ONE trip and buy a bottle of whatever liquors you like.

That way - check this out - when you want a casual drink, you already HAVE the liquor and don't have to drive.

[Xenalyte]

Then there are proponents such as Sarah Strinden and her husband, Bill, who calls the county's dry status "silly."

Bill Strinden, a plastic surgeon, said he has watched Lufkin's medical community grow from about 40 doctors when he arrived 18 years ago to 150 today.

And you know what? Lufkin was DRY when the Strindens moved there.

It's not like this happened over the weekend.

I am officially out of patience with Sarah and Bill.

[Migraine]

From her house it's a 10-mile jaunt to the metal-sided beer barns and package stores

metal-sided beer barn (in the next county) = the "inconvenience store"...

[bjcintennessee]

Hope this is coming your way soon --lol.

[DeFault User]

Angelina County, with 82,036 residents, is the second-most-populous dry county in the state behind Smith County, population 188,122, and its chief city of Tyler.

I imagine that Smith County still has a few places like the Petroleum Club, where you can drink like a fish, but the hoi polloi have to make a 50 mile roundtrip for a six pack.

[Fred Hayek]

My first experience with dry counties was not a good one. In 1991 I rode in a USCF sanction bicycle race in Tyler TX. I was accused of advertising alcoholic beverages. At that time I was on the Lone Star Racing Team, which BTW was NOT sponsored by Lone Star Beer, but solely by Katy Schwinn on Mason Road by I-10 in Katy, TX.
This was the race with the infamous Coors Light incident.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It is all a money issue, or to say it another way, a staying in office business. In a religious county, or precinct, the politicians are for no liquor. Once in office, they notice all the tax dollars going to the other guy. Then they change their minds.

[vetvetdoug]

I see Val Verde and Big Bend Counties are wet. One could be on the wrong side of the county and still have to drive 70-100 miles to find a liquor store.....