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| Wet Dry and Moist America; 200 counties of the USA still under 1919 prohibition | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 21 2012, 10:44 AM (213 Views) | |
| kenny | Mar 21 2012, 10:44 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17291978![]() Partial snip: National prohibition was finally repealed in 1933, but it never quite died out. When alcohol regulation was handed back to individual states, many local communities voted to keep the restrictions in place, particularly in the southern Bible Belt. Today there are still more than 200 "dry" counties in the United States, and many more where cities and towns within dry areas have voted to allow alcohol sales, making them "moist" or partially dry. The result is a patchwork of dry, wet and moist |
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| Nobody's Sock | Mar 21 2012, 11:11 AM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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That's because the Bible Belt is also the Gun Belt. They gave their folks a choice, you can either have yer guns or yer booze, not both! And what's up with Georgia? What they be hiding? |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2012, 11:27 AM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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Bloody hell, you guys are barbarians. |
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| kenny | Mar 21 2012, 12:02 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That was my thought when I lived in Ontario for a year and saw how controlled their alcohol sales were. Now I find it embarrassing to see much of America is just as backwards and pious. |
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| kenny | Mar 21 2012, 12:04 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Georgians don't need no steenkin booze laws. They are so chaste and pure nobody in that state even wants alcohol. |
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| kenny | Mar 21 2012, 12:15 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wow. Today we have "Medical Marijuana" that the federal govmt doesn't like. Back then the U.S. Treasure allowed Rx for "Medical Liquor". LOL (I wonder if they got any tax money from these.) ![]() Source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
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| Copper | Mar 21 2012, 03:36 PM Post #7 |
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Shortstop
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Always leaping to conclusions and being offended. I lived in a dry country in Dallas, TX. It was in a new thriving high-tech area so of course it was full of hotels and bars. But it was dry how could that be? You could serve drinks in a private club so every restaurant, hotel and bar was a "private club". Most of them cost between $1 and $10 for a "lifetime membership". I had a large stack of membership cards. There was also a large number of liquor stores just over the county line just a few miles to the south. As long as the right people are making the right amount of money the system will never change. There is no piety involved. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 21 2012, 04:15 PM Post #8 |
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MAMIL
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I think the map is more an indication of America's rather unique style of local government than anything else. Rather than have legislation covering an entire country, or even continent, there are still some things that are effectively covered by what |
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| musicasacra | Mar 21 2012, 04:36 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That red dot in South Dakota looks like the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. |
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| JBryan | Mar 22 2012, 03:36 AM Post #10 |
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I am the grey one
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Oklahahoma was the last state to ratify the repeal of prohibition in, I think, 1955. They say the one place where Baptists don't recognize each other is a liquor store. |
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