Have any of yall ever lived or been to a dry place???

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I assume moonshine continued to have large-scale demand until 1974 in those two states?

When I rode a train across the US in 1979, they stopped selling alcohol in the bar car after the train crossed into Kansas.

That must be a new thing. I can recall seeing recruitment ads for oil industry jobs based in Saudi Arabia which mentioned that the employees would not have access to alcohol.

I think they operate like duty free stores in specific enclaves where foreign guest workers frequent

Oh I thought you meant physically dry, like low humidity and not much rain. I don't think I can change my vote now

I don't think Arkansas is "dry," but I've heard of such things nearby. Doesn't bother me because I don't drink much alcohol. I think it's nice in a way because according to the stats alcohol causes more harm than say cannabis. But it flies in the face of the American ethos of small government and letting people make their own life decisions. Anyway I don't think it's really a small government at all.

I live in a dry county and love it.

If I want some alcohol, I can drive to another county, buy it, and bring it back. I don't need alcohol sales in my own county.

And there can be very big benefits from living in a dry county. For one, the traffic accident rate is lower. We do get some drunk drivers and they do have accidents from time to time, sometimes fatal, but the numbers of such accidents is rather low. I would say that you have a far lower chance of being killed by a drunk driver in my town than in most wet areas.

The crime rate is lower, too. Many people here feel no need to lock their houses even if they are going to be gone for a week or more. It is hard to find a place that has crime rates, both property crime and violent crime, as low as where I live. Those areas with similar crime rates tend to cost far more to live in. For example, our crime rates are about the same as Belvedere, California (look it up). If you want to move to Belvedere, be prepared to have to come up with at a million dollars just to buy a home -- the median home price there is reportedly just under $4,000,000 compared to under $150,000 here. The cost of living where I live is about 70% of the national average compared to about 230% of the national average for Belvedere.

We also need fewer police officers. My local city has no police department at all. If we need police, we call the sheriff's office and they send someone over. Wet cities in my area the same size are far more likely to have a number of police officers and a great deal of that is because of drunks.

In the community where I live, it is relatively unusual to even see police officers. Most of the time that a police officer is present, it is at funerals -- the county sheriff makes a point of attending just about every funeral in the county. Outside of funerals, a police officer might drive down the major highway every week or two and they never seem to need to stop anyone. We had one accident when I was a kid that it took four hours for the state troopers to arrive -- they didn't even know how to find the community and drove a lot further than they needed to get here.

Wet counties are little more than cesspools. If you want peace and quiet, dry counties are the way to go.

And remember, if you do want some alcohol, it isn't hard to find a store in a nearby city that sells it. Go buy it, bring it back, and drink it at home.