To: a fool in paradise
Areas near Dallas are dry countiesYou're partially correct .....
35 posted on
11/20/2013 6:59:34 AM PST by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: al_c
There is a dry neighborhood in Houston (the Heights) which I don’t understand because it isn’t even a separate city (such as West University or Bellaire or Jersey Village, etc.). Walgreen’s and Kroger cannot sell beer or wine. Restaurants cannot sell beer or wine. Only is the law for a half dozen blocks in any direction but they are large blocks.
To: al_c
Statewide prohibition was only repealed in the 1960s, over 30 years after Federal prohibition ended. Thirty years ago, the map would have been mostly white. The main prohibition holdouts at that time were counties where people of German, Czech, and Mexican ancestry were the majority. (They will have their bier/pivo/cerveza.) The Anglo-Southern, Baptist/Church of Christ dominated counties, representing most of the state, were dry, although there was often a precinct that was wet, so that the residents of dry areas could get a drink.
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