Unless it has changed in the past 18 years, Lubbock, Texas is *still* weird. In the city, you can drink at a bar or restaurant, but you can't buy stuff to take off the premises. However, *owning* alcohol remains legal, so there are liquor stores just outside the city limits on all the major roads out of town.

People have been trying for decades to open up the city. Of course the churches fight that, but so do the city councilmen. I'm sure it's totally unrelated that multiple city councilmen *own* stores just outside of town…

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

I even once read an article describing the USA thru the years &, it almost seemed to me, esp wrt the pre-Civil War period, that it sounded like the author was writing about a balkanized TU gov type! (Crossing the 'Mason-Dixon' Line used to be a really, really BIG DEAL) Hey, didja' know that, until the late '60's, El Paso County, Texas used to be 'dry' &, every evening, there was a mass 'migration' cross the border to Dinner Clubs in Juarez, Mexico?