BTW, I do remember the Killer Bees scandal of that period where part of the legislature ran away and hid to avoid voting on something they didn’t want.
And I do remember the Blue Laws which were in place when I first moved there in 1972. They would put a chain, or a row of grocery carts, across the aisles of the grocery store wher you could not shop on Sunday. During those years you could not buy mixed drinks in many restaurants, including the Astrodome, unless you were a “member”. As I remember, membership cost $1 and was issued for the evening. Other places allowed you to buy “set ups” and you brought your own liquor in a brown paper bag. I don’t remember when all that went away, but I pretty sure that those laws were all gone by the time I moved away in 1982.
Stupidity, IMHO.
Same with the “dry” counties. They sure didn’t stop anyone from getting all the alcohol they wanted. 2 of my kids went to college in “dry” counties — Waco and Lubbock — and it didn’t stop the drinking and partying. My neighbor’s kid got kicked out of the dorm for rolling a keg of beer down the hall at Texas Tech. He just got an apartment. And the owner of the newspaper where I worked put herself through college (many, many years ago) by doing liquor runs to the next county and bringing back booze for her friends at TTech.
The Baylor kids just moved their parties to Dallas and rented hotels where they could drink and dance all they wanted.
Ah, yes, the Killer Bees . . . . . . the Texas Legislature at its best!! IIRC, the Killer Bees were hoping to prevent a vote on a new re-districting plan that was not favorable to adding more Dems to the Texas Legislature.
Since then, the Texas Legislature has become a Republican majority body versus a Democrat majority and things have improved. That’s one of the main reasons why Texas has a strong economy and jobs out the wazzoo.