[RegulatorCountry]

That map is a little misleading, at least it is as far as the Carolinas are concerned.

NC is largely yellow because the ABC stores are all state run. You can’t buy a bottle of anything stronger than wine in a private store. Also, these state run ABC stores are closed on Sunday.

Then, you have SC, which from all appearances on the map is wide open “wet.”. Wrong. It’s a heavily tourist dependent state, but like most tourist areas there are traps designed to relieve you of money. SC requires all mixed drinks to be poured in precise measure, from those little airplane bottles. Last I knew, they were all you could get there, in a bar or a store.

So, it’s misleading, as I said.

So’s Virginia, really. They’re very law and order, and as favorably as i tend to look upon maintenance of public order, they’re a little too hardassed about it. I don’t understand the Commonwealth very well, and the county police forces are not something with which I’d want to tangle very often, over anything. A speeding ticket can leave you feeling as if you’ve just had a brush with a tad too much authoritarianism.

[cripplecreek]

Seems to me that the fact that the laws do appear to be very much up to the individual counties, indicates a great deal of freedom.

[burghguy]

You are wrong about SC. They repealed the mini-bottle laws some time ago. You can buy and drinks can be poured from regular bottles. Plus, having lived all over this country, liquor prices in SC are very competitive as it is a free market, not like the state stores in NC.