Besides any Southern woman worth her salt should be able to handle a few drinks at the age of eighteen. Dry county or not. By college she should be able to find the best hootch and get gloriously smackered without letting the seams of her stocking come askew then show up for church service in the morning bright as a daisy.
Darn straight.
I can't help but think that the fine women of Alabama are taking the implications of this smear East Coast carpet baggers as an insult to their character and womanhood
My experience with Southern women is that when their mind on something they go after it with the ruthlessness and calculation of of Dodge City gunslinger and they ply their cards with the charm, shrewdness and cunning of a river boat gambler
They are anything poor helpless damsels in distress although they can play that part pretty convincingly when they want to.