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Well , i finely figured out why counties vote dry

bitlockerbitlocker Member Posts: 299 ✭✭

they do not want commercial liquor stores in their area where they moonshine. eliminate the competition. Their version of "our thing"

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  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,633 ✭✭✭✭

    Well on the plus side, it does cut down on liquor store robberies. Bob

  • varianvarian Member Posts: 2,258 ✭✭✭✭

    you are half right. here in Mississippi dry counties are the only ones where the churches and the moonshiners are on the same side.

  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,438 ✭✭✭✭

    Don't forget the bootleggers. They thrived in Mississippi when I lived there. Got a pretty hefty markup for doing it, too.

    Down the road from our deer camp was a rundown house where you could knock on the door and say you were friends with "Joe". After you sit a spell and chat, he'd make you a "gift" of a bottle or two while just mentioning how sick his little niece was in the hospital. And you'd make him a donation of cash.

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Butchdog2Butchdog2 Member Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭✭

    County I live in is dry. Towns not so. ABC store, beer and wine at most any convenience and grocery store. So is LBTD in some restaurant's. All about the $$$$$$$$$$$.

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭

    my departed BIL lived in a dry county in Georga we use to visit him back in the 1980's and 90"s

    we would go with him showing us around the area .. looking back it was funny he would point out boot leg drive thru places they would have drive up windows with a drive way circling the house he said every one knew all such places and of course it cost a bit more but on the weekends that few dollars more did not matter if you wanted to drink .

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