Why is Prohibition still kind of a thing in Texas and the US

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I heard something that said Prohibition never really ended in Texas and America because of all the dry counties and dry towns and whatnot.I think its dumb.Like I just want to be able to drink and be left alone by the hyprocritical church-goers.Also I heard that meth use is higher in the dry jurisdictions.Like I remember when I was in high school Lubbock TX was still dry.Lubbock was called the Driest City outside of Saudi Arabia.Yet Ironically, Jesus drank wine and the Bible even has good things to say about alcohol.Yet Everybody treats like I am Evil for loving beer and wine.So why do yalll think alcohol is not sold legally everywhere in the nation.I am a outcast for liking alcohol at my church.Maybe I would like living in a Catholic area better than living in a Protestant area.Like Jesus first miracle was turning the water into wine accordiing to the word but that does not seem to matter to them.They also do entire sermons saying that the wine of the Bible was grape juice.Blows my mind.I think there would be more taxes collected if blue laws regarding alcohol were repealed and replaced.My faith group the church of Christ is notorious for being so against alcohol even in moderation.I heard that Al Capone got big by being a bootlegger so prohibition did more harm than good.

It's only really a thing with your immediate community because they can sense weakness.

I live in a dry county.About an hour’s drive to a liquor store.Or you can buy cheap canned beer from one of the local bootleggers.

Luke 7:34
Jesus liked a good time.

Local counties, and states, were "dry" in pioneer times prior to the big national prohibition era. The state of Kansas voted dry, but drank wet, in frontier times from what I hear. So it was already a tradition in some places. And continued to be after that national prohibition was repealed.

The county above me was wet before WW2 and the women voted it dry while the men were off fighting Nazis.
Boy were they mad when they got home.
Now it’s back wet because the tourists are thirsty.

Alcohol can be very bad for health, and I can see a good reason why leaders would want to limit it on public health grounds, but I don't think that's often their main motive. It's strange that a Christian church can twist its doctrines into seeing alcohol as taboo. I would have thought temperance was more of a Muslim thing. And given the "no do-gooder tells me what I can and can't do" attitude of most people, it's probably a waste of time trying to use the law to keep people off the stuff. If people want to pickle their brains, they'll find a way to do it. And there's something to be said for the idea that it's the individual's choice what they do with their own bodies. I guess all that can be reasonably done is to educate people on the risks and benefits of things.

As I understand it it was the women of America that were out to ban liquor because there was a saloon on every block, and the men were all drinking their paychecks, and breaking up families. So it was really about "family values" (except they didnt use that slogan back then). But during the nineteenth century women didnt have the vote. But women did get the vote just after the first world war, and...thats when Prohibition got voted in.

Like fifteen years later they partially repealed it and allowed weak kinds of beer, and then finnally a couple years later they completely repealed it, and allowed everything. The reason being was that it was then in the depths of Great Depression, and Congress reasoned that reviving the beer, wine, and spiritous liquor industries would create jobs, and help fight unemployment. But by the time they lifted Prohibition society had changed. Because of zoning laws or whatever you didnt have saloons on every street corner anymore. And ironically during Prohibition and the roaring Twenties it became chic for women to drink. So men were less destroyed by booze than before, and women were more equally...destroyed by booze...then men in the new modern era. So it ceased to be a gender issue of women defending the family from the local saloon.

But yes...prohibition lingers in some localities in the rural south and midwest. Not sure why. Those are Bible Belt areas.

The Bible doesnt forbid liquor, and both Judaism and Catholicism use wine in rituals. But Islam forbids liquor. But Islam allows hashish. The Mormons ban stimulants like coffee, tea, and Mountain Dew.

This thread goes to show you: The more things change, the more they stay the same. We're all human, and we all hate authority just the same, whether it's 2022 B.C. or 2022 A.D.

In 1920, alcohol was illegal, and you had to make friends with Al Capone's gangs to have a stiff drink. In 2020, socializing was illegal, and you had to make friends with QAnon to go to a party. In 1920, the Temperance Women made trouble for the alcohol industry. In 2020, Anthony Fauci and the Democrats made trouble for genuine human friendships. And in both cases, if you didn't have insider connections with the Rebels sticking it to the Empire, you were **** [poop] out of luck! (Of course, the social media that led me to QAnon didn't exist in 1920. But I'm 100% sure they had covert newspapers the government couldn't stop, because First Amendment.)

I can't help but feel flattered that even as an aspie, I managed to break into and befriend one of the darkest, most notorious underground organizations in the US. Then again, Al Capone's gangs took better care of the urban poor than the city governments did. So who's to say that QAnon won't respect an aspie like me who wants to socialize.

They're stuck in the 1920s.

Prohibition started because a bunch of southern preachers starting telling their congregations that if alcohol wasn't banned, their wives and daughters would be raped by a bunch of drunken black men.