Texans, according to their own adage, "drink wet and vote dry." So strong are Texas prohibitionists that 143 of the state's 254 counties prohibit the sale of liquor in any form; so powerful are Texas thirsts that a drink is seldom harder to get in a dry area than in the 29 counties where the sale of hard liquor is legal. Last week, in an eleven-part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ. 201,647) stirred the biggest uproar among...
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