Most clubs allow line dancers to dance in the center of the floor while partner dancers move anticlockwise around the outside. Large night clubs provide huge racetrack style dance floors and even larger clubs have special dance floors to cater separately for line dancers and swing couples leaving the larger floor for progressive dancing. What ever the dance the emphasis is on being in someone's arms and gliding around a large floor in step with modern dances to the very latest hot country hits. Compare that with your last Saturday night out and then tell me that we don't need to think seriously about the way we're being influenced to entertain ourselves in this country. Many people frequent country clubs just to listen to the great music and watch the talent on the dance floor.
Most tables surround the dance floor which becomes the main focal point of a venue.
I finished up with a table full of roses but, unable to dance in those days, I just got to talk to the guys instead. I don't drink, I'd rather pay a cover charge. We could exchange the social problems of gambling and alcohol addiction for the benefits of being happy and enjoying each other's company. Who knows, even good old fashioned family values could emerge again.