Prevalence
A 2004 survey by the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Association found that over 500 municipalities in the United States are dry, including 83 in Alaska. Almost one half of Mississippi's counties are dry. Its alcohol laws are similarly complex. In Florida, four of the 67 counties are dry, all of which are located in the northern part of the state, an area that has cultural ties to the Deep South.
Despite being the location of a major operational distillery of whiskey, Jack Daniel's home county of Moore County, Tennessee is a dry county so the product is not available at stores or restaurants within the county, although the distillery does sell commemorative bottles of whiskey.
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