Talk:Dry county

message: I wanted to point out that the map of dry counties in Virginia seems to be outdated. Take Mecklenburg County, for instance. There are multiple ABC stores in the county and several places that sell off-premise beer along with several restaurants that serve beer/liquor on-premise. As I know from living in VA for 11 years, Pittsylvania, Campbell, Appomattox, and Louisa are completely wet. The rest of the counties I do not know for sure, however. I would not be surprised if Southwest VA still has dry counties. Radio-x 06:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, I think there'd be week-long riots if Roanoke ever went dry :D — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ (talk) 10:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - I looked up the ordinances of one of the counties in Virginia marked as dry, Lunenburg County. It shows that alcholol sales are legal, save during certain hours. See: http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientID=13147&stateID=46&statename=Virginia 75.243.19.231 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 02:04, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dry Counties in Virginia

message: The map is also wrong for Alabama; Jefferson County (home of Birmingham) is far from completely dry, as the map suggests.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lackcomm (talk • contribs) 14:37, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dry Counties in Alabama

message: How is Cape May county dry. Yes, Ocean City is in Cape May County, and I think West Cape May borough is dry, but the Wildwoods are as wet as they come. Does anyone have a reason beyond the few dry municipalities in the county. because I don't think there is any county law specifically and significantly restricting alcohol further than state law.
And whats with the western 4 counties of Mass being dry. In fact, I have seen both beer and wine being sold in supermarkets in that part of the state, which is something that's not normally allowed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.232.48 (talk) 14:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Jersey And Massachusetts

message: In the map, it says: "Wet Counties" and "Wet Counties" for two different colors, what is the difference? Please fix. WikiDon (talk) 06:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The grey colour is for states which have no dry counties and which aren't discussed in the article (except Louisiana and Alaska, which have very few), while the other colours are used for states which have a mixture of dry, wet, and "moist" counties.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulGS (talk • contribs) 05:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Image

message: "Wayne County, Michigan, whose county seat is Detroit, is notable in that one cannot buy alcoholic beverages in any gas station there..." If I lived in Wayne County (I used to) and read this article, it just doesn't sound right, because "there" is not "there" for me... it's "here". I think something more generic should be used, like "the state of _______" or "the county of _______" so that it works well for all readers. Thoughts? Kubel (talk) 10:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word "there". 

message: Please see a discussion here as to why this website does not meet WP:RS as an objective, third-party source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#About_400_links_to_the_two_sites_of_one_individual . The page notes that "The Wikipedia Encyclopedia’s entry titled                “dry counties” is based on this page" -- but that was due to the author's COI's editing. Flowanda | Talk 01:29, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of potsdam.edu website references 

message: This page lists Colorado City, AZ as being as being a dry city. But according to the AZ revised statues, section 4-224, as listed further down as well, this would be legally impossible.
Now, I'm well aware of the fact that due to the demographics of this community, any establishment selling liquor would have a hard time staying in business, making Colorado City de facto a dry community (and this will likely be the case in nearby Centennial Park, AZ as well), but the article doesn't state that. In my opinion these communities should be listed as "de facto dry" instead of "dry" Clint.hotvedt (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colorado City, AZ 

message: As far as I know, Navajo Nation is moist, meaning that no alcohol sales are allowed on the reservation. This is possible because the AZ statues exclude tribal land. Clint.hotvedt (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, having lived on the Navajo Nation, it is in fact "dry", meaning that alcohol is theoretically illegal. My feeling was that in fact, small scale private use, especially by non natives, was overlooked unless it created a problem. Furthermore, since the Navajo Nation extends into both Utah and New Mexico, AZ law counts for very little. Wschart (talk) 23:15, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navajo Nation, AZ 

message: As per Sept, 10, 2008, Weston, Massachusetts is no more 'dry'.
Cf. Casey Ramsdell, "Popping the cork in Weston", in The Boston Globe, September 10, 2008.
-- Bartvs (talk) 08:06, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weston, Massachusetts no more 'dry' 

message: In the Massachusetts section, one reads (i.a.): "Rockport, MA is a formerly dry town which became moist three years ago." (my stress added) I am afraid that this is unencyclopedical. Please have it superseded by a definite year instead.
-- Bartvs (talk) 08:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "three years ago" ? 

message: Dassel, Minnesota is not a dry town.  The Dassel Liquor store is located there.  It's been there for quite some time. Perhaps you have confused it with the neighboring Cokato, which was dry until about two years ago.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.191.76.174 (talk) 23:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dassel, Minnesota 

message: Several parts of the article contradict each other. The opening paragraph states that most dry counties are in the south or utah, but at the end it lists Utah as a state that is entirely wet. There is also a map of wet and dry counties in kansas, but again, kansas is listed as a state that is entirely wet
It shows several dry counties in Oklahoma, where you can legally buy alcohol in any county in the state. 
It is confusing "dry laws" with regulations on the serving of alcohol in public places, which exist everywhere.107.133.158.129 (talk) 05:30, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is confusing 

message: Corbin KY is now WET as of 2/15/2012.  The city of Corbin, Kentucky.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.19.182.249 (talk) 10:03, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corbin, KY has went WET as a city 

message: The terms "off-premises sale" and "on-premises sale", which appear in the opening paragraph, are *not* self-explanatory, and not linked.  I think they are common shorthand for "retail sale for consumption elsewhere" and "retail sale for consumption on-site".  There should probably be a detailed discussion of this usage somewhere on WP, whether it varies around the US, what terms are used in other countries.  Please improve the article. -96.237.7.74 (talk) 19:19, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  off-premises / on-premises 

message: The BBC recently published an article which contains a map which is considerably more detailed and contains more data than the one here. Thought I'd share it, in case anyone wanted to update it. 75.154.66.79 (talk) 17:30, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Data 

message: I assume that means that certain towns are dry, but that others are wet.  But does anyone know for sure?  It'd be pretty important to add, given that most of Texas is partially dry.Armadillo1985 (talk) 21:05, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  what is a partially dry county? 

message: As of 2009 Spencer County, Kentucky is now a wet county.209.12.208.55 (talk) 19:35, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spencer County, Kentucky 

message: Why are Louisiana and West Virginia grayed out? Perhaps that information could be included in the caption.
Tyrannophobe (talk) 23:52, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louisiana and West Virginia 

message: It appears this section is related to the impact of state and local prohibition laws on interstate commerce. I've copyedited the text, but it needs additional content and citations for further clarification. It really needs someone with more knowledge of interstate commerce and transportation of alcoholic beverages than I do. It's not my area of expertise, so I just cleared up some of copyediting issues. Rosalina523 (talk) 22:26, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Transport

message: Why is the map on the article not explained when it comes to "mixed" counties?  I've never heard the term. --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:07, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconding this.  The article makes no mention of this term so it's confusing.  Does it mean that individual municipalities within said county are dry? --Tofurki (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

text: Update - This is apparently a "moist county" which Wikipedia does have a page for, so I've updated the map description and linked to said page. --Tofurki (talk) 20:21, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixed 

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message: Could someone update Tennessee on the map? I know that Montgomery County, for example, should be yellow; it's not a dry county as of now.  Soccer11147 (talk) 01:57, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tennessee Counties  

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message: Hello. I thought of renaming this page to the name mentioned above because I think it doesn't make enough sense to list only "Dry county" on the title of this page. Any consensus?
--2600:381:F1D0:8DB:38CD:5551:3F0E:319A (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming to "Wet and dry counties"