East Texas certainly is odd.
I had a friend that was a life long member of the church beside my house.
Her husband divorced her.
She met another man years later and that church refused to marry her to him.
She didn’t divorce her first hubby, he divorced her!
At any rate, she remained a member even though her marriage was not recognized by her own church.
She contracted cancer some years later and died.
The funeral was at this same church and during the eulogy they gushed and gushed over how the 2nd husband stood beside her during the cancer and what a fine husband he was to her.
Not much rhyme nor reason to the entire thing.
I have lived in East Texas all my life. There are some dry counties, but I grew up in a wet county.
My hometown had a dry zoned triangle that my house was in. When I got “legal” I could not go to the corner 7-11, I had to drive a few miles into the “wet” area.
The DFW metroplex has a town called Hurst that only sells 5.0 beer maximum.
Grapevine a few miles north has imports, malt liquor and wine, but no hard liquor.
You have to go a couple miles south of Hurst into Fort Worth to buy liquor.
I guess allowing 3 different alcohol contents in one area makes sense to someone.