Prohibition no longer? Why a large Alabama county looks to go completely ‘wet’

Prohibition might have ended 91 years ago, but restrictions on liquor sales continues throughout the U.S. including within 23 Alabama counties where booze is banned from being sold inside retail stores or restaurants within unincorporated areas.

In Marshall County, among the most conservative counties in Alabama, the loss of revenue is packing a negative punch for the county government. The county is the second-largest remaining in Alabama that is still considered somewhat “dry.” On Nov. 5, voters will be asked to make Marshall County completely “wet,” and to back a referendum that one state lawmaker says gets people “caught up to the 21st century.”