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It used to be that way in my hometown in Arkansas. I remember the closest liquor store was twenty miles out. Now there is aliquor store about a mile from my old home.

I think they do, mainly a family ran affair. Mom does the book keeping, brothers run the door.

Sisters keep the cousins entertained.

Dad samples the goods.

This thread ain’t gonna be pretty.

Lol

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I grew up in bible belt dry counties.

County just to the south wasn't dry, and had a big liquor store out in the middle of nowhere at the county line.

Guy who owned that store died a multi-millionaire. Fact.

Those counties to the north kept the highway worn down driving there.

FWIW, I never noticed any downturn in the drinking in a dry county. Just the selling (In the open)... The bootleggers were plentiful.

Yeppers, and in the counties that do sell alcohol your SOL if you go to the fridge for a beer on Sunday and find it empty! Gotta wait until Monday to stock up!

I think you were warned in your OP months ago.

Do like the rest of us that live in dry counties, when you go to the Liquor Store, stock up.

We stock up once a month at Sam's for beer, and the Liquor Store for wine and liquor, no biggie. Our Sam's does not sell liquor.

Pushing a basket full of beer gets us a few odd looks, but hey, gotta do what ya gotta do.

It will all be fine, you learn to deal with it.

Or you can move.

Good luck with your new job and welcome to Arkansas.

Oh yeah, if you gotta get hammered in a dry county just go to the local dine-in restaurant, sign the guestbook and you can get hammered, just no alcohol to go👍 it's considered a "private club"

Also, pool halls, VFWs, Eagle, elks, dance clubs etc. are allowed to sell alcohol in dry counties, the have a guestbook that you sign in on. Technically they are "private clubs"

You actually moved to a place without knowing something as important as this? Then want to change the way they do things immediately after moving there? Move back to Oregon, when you find out you have to pump your own gas and don’t know how to, your head’s going to explode.

Supposedly Arkansas has the most dry counties of any state in the country. I believe it’s 35 dry counties at the last count. And it’s nearly impossible to get them off center when it comes up for a vote. Everyone thought recreational
Marijuana would pass in the recent election too and it lost out by a pretty good margin.

Just like almost everyone else here, you're confusing conservatism with libertarianism. They are most definitely NOT the same... or they didn't use to be, anyway.

Any municipality is gonna have council members, alderman, etc. . Those pukes can vote any legislation in they see fit. We still have dry counties and towns in TN.

Carry your Yankee ass back Oregon and STFU.

Sounds like the same arguments against recreational marijuana.

A wine make fugged up and moved to a dry county didn't he?

Thought people decidin how they wanted ta live their lives, was the way it was supposed ta be.

If you take a Baptist fishing, take two. They won't touch your beer. If you take one he'll drink most of it.

I knew there were dry counties before moving here. Even so I am not real pleased about it. I am quite conservative which is one of the reasons I left Oregon. Dry counties don't make much sense as others have posted. I work in a wet county so yes, I can buy booze there before heading home but when I go out to dinner on occasion I do generally like to have some sort of alcoholic drink with the meal. Sure glad none of you all ever complain about anything. Good grief, some of you guys are pretty whacked to jump my case about an issue that I am dealing with. We haven't bought a home yet but will likely make an offer on one in the neighboring dry county. We have looked at over 30 homes and so far this is the best by far. Just bummed that it is in a dry county. Worse things in life for sure. Oh well.

You Californians messing up everything....

Come on Nugz, play nice.