Texans = Puritans (ha-lmao)…sure we got some folks that like to thump a bible. But, bring your ass down here sometime and see how Puritanical a Sat. night in most any Texas town is.
Hell, any night for that matter.
As far as the sodomy case goes…it’s being challenged, right?
Maybe we need to get a better definition of Puritanical before this debate gets in gear.
Dry county in Texas usually means you have to go to the bar to get drunk. IOW’s you can’t buy it at the store!
No Gambling…B.S., the boats and gamblin houses are on the border and the horses are all over, not to mention dogs and gamecocks. Lotto’s the biggest scam in Texas.
Prostitution, ever been to Houston or Dallas?
Crime…prisons are full & building new ones everyday.
How 'bout gun control…(never mind)
etc.
Yes, we do have plenty of churches. Big deal, preachers and clergy are supposed to be what? virtuous… lol. that’s a good one.
Texas could probably use a few more tightasses in Austin don’t ya think. Hell y’all took ol’ GeeDubya from us…give us a break now. (I guess he qualifies as being a puritan) :dubious:
Pennslyvania
The state controls all alchohol sales. You must buy beer by the CASE at a state beer store. You must buy wine at the state Wine store. Never the two shall meet. You can buy a six-pack in a bar with take-out, if you dont mind paying 10 bucks for it. God forbid (literally) if you miight want a four pack of Guiness-in-a-can. No can do! Must buy a case of four packs, because rare few bars actually would carry such an item! Out-of-staters have been known to drive around for hours trying to figure out how to buy beer.
Next to Utah, I would vote Tennessee, especially when it comes to gambling.
Tennessee is only one of three states that has absolutely no gambling (Hawaii and Utah are the other two.) Raffles and cakewalks are illegal in Tennessee.
The city of Memphis has tried for many years to get a casino in the city, because Mississippi (just south) legalized them, and of course, it would make a lot of money. Nashville wont hear of it. I don’t know why these stupid Baptist country music listening idiots wont allow Memphis to vote on it. A state representitive from Memphis, Steve Cohn has tried to get a lottery started in Tn for education and what not. The people even had a vote in support of a lottery. But, there again the stupid, Baptist, redneck, copuntry music listening idiots wont allow it.
You cannot buy liquor on Sunday in Tennessee. One cannot buy liquor in a grocery store, only in a liquor store. The liquor store can only sell liquor, or they are in violation of the law. Oh, some stupid Highway patrolman shot a dog in self defense.
Interesting replies. But I would mention that part of the reason for the blue laws on Sundays were to give retail workers at least one guaranteed day off. When they were repealed in stages in the early 90’s I was working for the MA state government and we got a lot of complaints on Monday mornings from poor schmucks whose bosses had an odd interpretation of the words “voluntary work” and “time and a half pay”.
Sure, it’s nice dropping in a store on Sunday, but for retail workers it’s taken away something that used to be a day of rest. So see, blue laws can also have a non-Puritanical bent.
I’m not sure this is factually accurate, much less necessary to answer the OP. It’s not as though the Index is still up and running. And I’m not sure the last thing the RCC tried to “censor” (N.B. that telling its members not to patronize something is not the same as censoring (i.e., outlawing) such thing – which was, even in the day of the Index, the major function of the Index). Certainly most of the Southern states listed have been no friends to R.C.s over time.
As for the actual OP, and putting aside the noble and openminded call to kill all the inhabitants of Cincinnati, who knows? Various municipalities ordain various rules. In some ways, I find this quite okay, even heartening. Democracy in action. Having lived in a dry precint, while I may not agree with the Babtists and Methodists who made it that way, I do respect the local autonomy that allowed the local voices (nutty though they may be) to be heard, and never found it insuperably hard to drive across the precinct line if I needed beer. Same holds true for Utah; join the “private club,” whatever it takes; I never had that hard a time getting served when I really wanted to.
By the way, and [hijack]: Proof positive that nuking Cincy would be a crime against humanity:
Should have made clearer that the function of the Index was to advise/admonish members, not to render any publication illegal (which my post left ambiguous).
