The category definition is part of the data. A zero in this table does not mean no local restriction, and dry does not automatically mean consumption prohibited. Treat as a dated secondary snapshot and map lead, not current legal guidance.
The entire written source was reviewed. Comments, when present, are distinguished from the authored article.
Article reports 47 dry counties: Arkansas29, Kentucky6, Mississippi5, Texas3, Florida1, North Carolina1, South Dakota1 and Tennessee1; all remaining states and DC show zero in its table. The counts sum to47. It expressly omits moist counties while retaining some special on-premise permits. Historical discussion mentions Little Rock Temperance Society1831, women/temperance, Carrie Nation, WWII-era voting accounts in Craighead/Crawford and neighboring liquor-store interests. No underlying county-by-county legal audit or population calculation is supplied in the extracted text.
Complete state-count table
Historical and local-option explanation
Historical and local-option explanation; Map inclusion/exclusion paragraph; Complete state-count table
Source-faithful paraphrase only; not independent corroboration. Map itself remains unreviewed; exact county identities and more-than-million population claim not verified from the prose/table. Legal status changes and exceptions require official local/state checks before current-use publication. Motive and wartime-voting claims are attributed accounts, not demonstrated causal findings.
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Source-faithful paraphrase. Verified does not mean independently corroborated.
Evidence
Article reports 47 dry counties: Arkansas29, Kentucky6, Mississippi5, Texas3, Florida1, North Carolina1, South Dakota1 and Tennessee1; all remaining states and DC show zero in its table. The counts sum to47. It expressly omits moist counties while retaining some special on-premise permits. Historical discussion mentions Little Rock Temperance Society1831, women/temperance, Carrie Nation, WWII-era voting accounts in Craighead/Crawford and neighboring liquor-store interests. No underlying county-by-county legal audit or population calculation is supplied in the extracted text.
Location and context
No access. Historical and local-option explanation; Map inclusion/exclusion paragraph; Complete state-count table.
Full written article reviewed; embedded evidence remains pending.
Annotation
The category definition is part of the data. A zero in this table does not mean no local restriction, and dry does not automatically mean consumption prohibited. Treat as a dated secondary snapshot and map lead, not current legal guidance.
Map itself remains unreviewed; exact county identities and more-than-million population claim not verified from the prose/table. Legal status changes and exceptions require official local/state checks before current-use publication. Motive and wartime-voting claims are attributed accounts, not demonstrated causal findings.