[al_c]

Areas near Dallas are dry counties

You're partially correct .....

[a fool in paradise]

There is a dry neighborhood in Houston (the Heights) which I don’t understand because it isn’t even a separate city (such as West University or Bellaire or Jersey Village, etc.). Walgreen’s and Kroger cannot sell beer or wine. Restaurants cannot sell beer or wine. Only is the law for a half dozen blocks in any direction but they are large blocks.

[Wallace T.]

Statewide prohibition was only repealed in the 1960s, over 30 years after Federal prohibition ended. Thirty years ago, the map would have been mostly white. The main prohibition holdouts at that time were counties where people of German, Czech, and Mexican ancestry were the majority. (They will have their bier/pivo/cerveza.) The Anglo-Southern, Baptist/Church of Christ dominated counties, representing most of the state, were dry, although there was often a precinct that was wet, so that the residents of dry areas could get a drink.