Dry counties are so called because whiskey is not for sale. It says nothing about how much whiskey drinking is going on. My own family hometown of Benton County, Arkansas. Dry county to this day. Whiskey consumption considerable. Of course when the Baptists drive over the state line, they don’t recognize one another in the liquor stores.
It’s not dry any more!!! Just changed the law last election cycle. I didn’t mind driving to Springdale for beer one bit, it was a nice change from “the Sodom of the South” aka Atlanta, from where we moved. As my friend, who moved here from Detroit, once put it so nicely, “Where I’m from there’s a liquor store on every corner. Down here, there’s a church on every corner.” And what a change in atmosphere that is! Sadly I fear that we are going to face a major battle for the soul of this place, now that the art musuem has opened and the attendant low-lifes have begun flocking. Only a matter of time until the rainbow flags start going up.