Should dry counties be illegal?

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Yes.

This is already the case in 17 states.

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i think dry counties and towns are ridiculous and pointless.  at the same time, if podunk county north dakota wants to be 'dry'...more power to them.

There are no dry municipalities in North Dakota. It's one of the 17 states that ban them.

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Also nowhere in North Dakota WANTS to be dry. The only dry places in the Midwest are really small Dutch towns or ones also dominated by really conservative religious sects. The largest dry town in Minnesota (pop. 2000) is one of those.

Outside of such places the idea of going dry would be thought of some sort of joke in the Midwest.

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Yes.

Walter is quite dumb if he honestly thinks ND is where most dry municipalities are. As I said earlier, they're illegal there, so why is he using that state as an example? But hey, can't expect Walter to make sense.

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Yes.

Walter is quite dumb if he honestly thinks ND is where most dry municipalities are. As I said earlier, they're illegal there, so why is he using that state as an example? But hey, can't expect Walter to make sense.

Oh come on....Isn't it obvious he randomly named a place?

Replace "podunk north dakota" with "new york city" and you could've also just randomly named a place...and the comment is no more f**king retarded. Why not pick a place where counties often are dry (like Kentucky) rather than an area that would never go dry in a million years?

Besides it's fundie Christian areas that go dry. North Dakota generally HATES fundies. Like to the point of where members of fundie Pentecostal churches have their windows broken and receive frequent death threats. That lady in the movie Jesus Camp was forced to close her camp because of the vandalism and death threats she got, also she's basically the subject of a mass shunning now.

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I'm still amused at how f**king stupid Walter's example of North Dakota in this thread was. Does that guy have any clue?

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     Meh. I've always wondered what was so great about moving to avoid one's rights being infringed as opposed to just stopping the rednecks from just infringing one's rights in the first place.

Buying alcohol is not a right.

Wow, that's evil.

21st Amendment disagrees thankfully.

Yes, since they cause more drunk driving incidents to occur as people have to drive tipsy longer to get home from bars and other such establishments.

And another great point.

Also once gain:

LOL@WALTER'S MORONIC DELUSIONAL BELIEF THAT NORTH DAKOTA HAS DRY COUNTIES!

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It's a states business, not a federal matter. No is my answer.

Yeah, and the states are the ones banning them. (WHICH INCLUDES NORTH DAKOTA DESPITE MITTY'S INSANE DELUSIONS.)

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     Meh. I've always wondered what was so great about moving to avoid one's rights being infringed as opposed to just stopping the rednecks from just infringing one's rights in the first place.

Buying alcohol is not a right.

     I was speaking more generally. I find an all too common tendency of my side is to argue that people can just move away to avoid oppression, which is not viable for everyone.

Map of Dry Counties
Dark Blue=Dry
Mid Dark Blue="moist"

      at MA having dry counties.

Were you paying attention to the key? Those are "moist" counties. Alcohol is freely sold almost everywhere in them, just a few very small towns in them are dry. The same thing with Alaska as dead0man pointed out.

http://www.mass.gov/abcc/pdf_frm/DRYTOWNS.pdf

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What's the third-darkest shade for?

Wet counties in states that have information compiled. The gray ones are just not compiled.

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I'm going to disagree with that map.  Oktibehha County, MS, is dry, although the city of Starkville is wet.

That would make the county "moist".

BTW upon my reading of Kansas law the Kansas counties are not truly dry, they would be better described as "moist". One can still buy alcohol in them, it just can't be sold by the drink (basically liquor stores OK, bars not OK.)