[DogByte6RER]

Yikes! The ghost of the original battleaxe, Carrie Nation, lives on!

Bio - Standing at nearly 6 feet tall and weighing 180 pounds, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Carrie Nation, as she came to be known, cut an imposing figure. Wielding a hatchet, she was downright frightful. In 1900, the target of Nation's wrath was alcoholic drink. Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times after leading her followers in the destruction of one water hole after another with cries of "Smash, ladies, smash!"

[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.

[dainbramaged]

Alaska has quite a few dry Indian villages - for good reason.

[Dust in the Wind]

Just to note, many of the ‘dry’ counties in Kansas do have Taverns. 3.2 beers available...

[9YearLurker]

And I thought that was Grammy Clampett in her youth!

[rawcatslyentist]

Ah the Godmother of the Kennedys and Capones.

MS13, La Familia, and Sinaloa, are her grand children.

[Delta 21]

So.....Whats up with Georgia?

[Albion Wilde]

I see that most of South Jersey, where so many beaches are, is partially dry. I remember how nice it was to take children there for vacation, and how quiet it was at night, thanks to partial controls. Some of those beaches are really old resorts, like Cape May and Ocean City NJ and Rehoboth DE, that started out as summer religious retreats.

[x]

Wellesley MA was long known as a "dry town." Babson College founder Roger Babson even ran for President on the Prohibition Party ticket.

The town allowed liquor sales in the 1970s, but so far as I know it only applies to restaurants and clubs: they've kept liquor stores out of the town.

Needham is still listed as an officially dry town, as is Dunstable (next door to Groton).

The other Mass dry towns are on Martha's Vineyard or the Berkshires. Most of them are too small to support much business of any sort.

It's a kind of zoning thing nowadays, a way of keeping undesireables out: towns keep out lottery agents or make everyone live on large lots or without a public sewage system for the same reason.

[Twotone]

My great, great grandmother was Annie Durham Methvin, known as the ‘poet laureate’ of the WCTU. Here’s a sample of her poetry:

Till the World Goes Dry

Our own beloved country once made her valiant stand,
And Prohibition was the law in this our native land,
But Ah, the foe was busy, with hatred unconcealed,
And by the hand of traitors was the law repealed.
Chorus:
America, America, our own dear U.S.A.
We’ll see thee once again, dear land, victorious in the fray,
We’ll never yield our righteous cause, nor lay our armor by
And we’ll not give up the struggle till the world goes dry.

Personally, my sweetie & I make home brew. I’m afraid I’d be a terrible disappointment to old Annie.

[BenLurkin]

Related story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2863281/posts

[BenLurkin]

Related story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2863281/posts

[ExGeeEye]

Maybe this has changed; when I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX in the late 90’s and lived in Killeen (Bell Co), I did some business in neighboring Copperas Cove (Coryell? Co.). While in one of the grocery stores I heard an exchange between a young adult male customer and a female employee.

He: I'm looking for the beer.

She: We don't sell beer here. This is a dry county.

He: Huh. Seems like we should have had a vote on that.

She: We did.

[chris_bdba]

I live in one of the yellow counties in Ohio.No alcohol sales between 12pm Saturday night and 12 noon on Sunday for carryout.I was shocked out west when we tried to buy a 12 pack in a store and was told we’d have to drive about 20 mi away to get it as the store sat on the edge of an Indian reservation.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[MV=PY]

I like it. While I won’t land in any of the dry places, we have choice and vote with our feet. That promotes freedom, like state’s rights.

It would be interesting to compare auto accident statistics between dry and wet counties to see the actual effects of alcohol and MADD.

[MD Expat in PA]

Here in Pennsylvania you can’t buy wine or liquor except for in the state run “State Stores”, the LCB. It has all the convenience, charm and much the same experience and level of customer satisfaction as going to PennDot to renew your driver’s license.

And you can’t buy beer at the LCB. For that you have to go to a “distributor” which are few and far between and you can only buy beer by the case.

Interestingly the PA county where I live has some of the biggest rates for DUI arrests in the country.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s banned in public in many places. It’s sale in stores is restricted by day and hour and it’s sale in open containers is restricted by license and hour and variety.

Additionally MADD is pushing towards 0.03 BAC for drivers and some organizations are pushing for 0.01 BAC for ALL bar workers including performers (strippers and musicians).

Prohibition? Really? Naw...

And tobacco is limited in its use as well.

But dopers think by demonizing alcohol and cigarettes (which are prohibited by some employers even in off hours and don’t have the same lingering effects as dope), they will be able to see all substances “equalized”.

[Rightly Biased]

You are missing Alaska and HI?