I was born in a dry county in Alabama. No one is born in dry counties in Alabama today, because there aren’t any. While there are some counties that are technically dry, they all have “wet” municipalities in their borders. In Alabama, the dry county is extinct, gone the way of the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon.
Dry counties went extinct because the tide of history was against them. And regardless of how you feel about gambling, Alabama’s odd position as the only non-Mormon state in the continental United States without either a lottery and/or full casino gaming cannot last forever.
