I’m not 100% sure of this but i believe the city of Dallas had some precincts where
alcohol could be sold and some where it couldn’t. My home town in Dallas County was completely dry, at least when i was held captive there. I don’t know how it is now.
I don’t know how it is now either, but when I was grew up there, Oak Cliff was indeed dry.
Yeah I live in Houston and you can buy alcohol in a grocery store any day or time of the week. But hard liquor can only be bought in liquor stores, between certain hours, and not on Sunday.
Though that’s the case in Oregon as well, and it’s all Green, so I don’t know what’s up with that map.
Look at that map. Texas has a staggering number of dry or “moist” counties.
That’s because you’re in one of the district’s that’s gone wet. A few blocks over, you might be in a district that voted dry. You might or might not notice that it’s dry because it’s not uncommon in a city for there to be little pockets where there aren’t grocery/drug/liquor stores anyway.
And generally, “no sale on Sunday” isn’t a wet/dry issue. There are totally wet counties (in Ky, anyway) where local laws prohibit sales between when the bars close Saturday night and early Monday morning (usually somewhere in the 6-8 am range.) It’s just a holdover of the blue laws that hasn’t gotten changed yet because it doesn’t bother enough people. There are other wet counties where you can get a drink at a restaurant, but package sales shut down on Sunday. Then there are your moist counties where restaurants can serve alcohol but package sales are prohibited.
What I find odd is Moore County, Tennessee. Dry county, yet the location of the Jack Daniel’s distillery.
My daughter and her husband are in the process of moving from Maumelle to Alexander, which the SIL informs me is dry. But they’re getting an incredible deal on a nice home, so stopping close to work in N. Little Rock on the way home won’t bother him much.
So he says.
I used to live in Harris and Jefferson and counties, which are listed as partially dry on that Wikipedia map, and in both places you could buy beer and wine in just about any grocery or convenience store, and would have little problem finding a liquor store.
I’m guessing most of those partially dry counties in Texas, are listed as such only because they have a single outlying community that may have gone dry or instituted some restriction like you can only beer at package stores instead of groceries.
Here’s a good resource listing the various alcohol laws in Texas by county, precinct and city:
I saw that for Harris County, only the community of Galena Park is dry and that the rest of the county, which includes the city of Houston, is either wet or partially wet. And even in most of the partially wet areas, you can still get beer, wine, mixed drinks, etc. They may just have a restriction on where you can buy, or that you have to also sell food if you’re selling mixed drinks.
Yeah, I know someone who went on the distillery tour there, but was sad when they couldn’t offer any samples at the end. 
I think I would honestly sell my house and move in protest if my county went dry. It’s my equivalent of Alec Baldwin’s “move to Canada” rhetoric, except the issue is important enough to me I’d actually follow through with it.
Mississippi was a dry state until 1966. Ironically Utah was the state gave the 21st Amendment the 3/4 majority it needed to pass.
I graduated from Sunset High, way back in 1958.
I’m pretty sure our liquor stores are open on Sundays. Port wine is about the hardest thing you can buy in a grocery store at about 20%.
Could be weirder. Some states back east still have only state-run liquor stores. At least in Oregon they’re private businesses, and if you’re too far away from one, someone will open up a new one eventually.
I live in Dallas. I think completely dry areas are a thing of the past. You can buy beer and wine pretty much anywhere now.
Hell, the town of Buckingham pretty much existed for the sole reason to sell alcohol. Once Richardson saw how much money they were making, they anexed the town and started selling beer and wine through out the rest of the city. (Hard liquor, you still have to go to Buckingham.)
Funny, when the money started to roll in they all lost their moral high ground. :rolleyes:
Utah, Idaho and Washington all have state run liquor stores, which are really just legal government monopolies on liquor…
At least in ID and WA you can get full strength beer and wine in grocery or convenience stores; Here in good ol’ Utah anything besides 3.2% beer is sold only by the state.
I did the tour 20 years ago and they had a full wooden bar set up at the end of it - with only Lynchburg Lemonade to drink. The old guy taking us round said that the county had flipped from dry to wet over the years, so for some years the bar had been able to serve up the whisky too. He also said there was a provision in the law to allow JD to give their staff one free bottle of whisky a month as a bonus and “there had never been a sick day taken at the end of the month”. :dubious:
It’s a great tour by the way and I would recommend it to anybody. The old dudes you see in the ads take you round, and they are genuine retired employees with the gift of the Tennessee gab. It’s made even more memorable because of the bizarre legal anomaly of its location.
And a reason I am glad I live in Australia, I still am amazed that anyone thinks that prohibition works.
Dry counties WTF
There’s actually 3 restaurants in Grant County that are considered clubs now and serve alcohol.
on the downside, you live in California.