Reply #31: It's leftover from prohibition. [View All]

[fudge stripe cookays]

When prohibition ended, Texas left it up to individual counties to decide if they wanted to go back to serving liquor or not.

Some counties said "hell yeah.." Others decided it was either too unChristian or too much hassle. So they stayed dry.

And the areas have come down to us as "dry" areas. In the "wet" ones, you can buy beer, wine AND hard liquor. In "most" ones, you can buy beer and wine.

And it's not just by county anymore. Now, certain blocks are dry, and you drive over a couple and there's a bunch of liquor stores.

I think it's mostly North Texas. When I grew up in Austin, we didn't have this problem that I remember.

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