Prohibition Anniversary

On this date in 1920,the 18th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect,thus starting Prohibition in America-which in turn created the vast empire of that era known as "bootlegging".Alcohol may have been banned but people still had an appetite for it,and a clandestine black market flourished.Surprisingly to me ,the entity we know today as NASCAR can trace its early beginnings to the "runners" of illicit booze and the cars they carried it in and truthfully I did not know that until I watched "Hillbillies" on History Channel and learned about the Flock Brothers!
Good sense prevailed and in 1933,the 21st Amendment to the Constitution repealed Prohibition.Ironically part of Prohibition is still alive as some small and/or rural communities are left that have NO alcohol sales,so-called "dry counties".Locally on the Shore,Smith Island and Tangier are both"dry".Other municipalities sell alcohol but not on Sundays.Today in the news,a county council member in Wicomico County is dissatisfied with the liquor board because they are selling beer as well as the "hard stuff" and she feels local stores cannot compete,but unlike actual liquor,beer & wine are sold just about everywhere now,so its not like the liquor board is monopolizing the market.Their customers asked for beer and apparently enough of them bought it to make it profitable-thats just good business sense and from where I am sitting,the county is making alot of money off liquor sales,and the board is self-supporting fiscally-can they say the same about other county departments or boards?Unless the WCLCB stores are drastically undercutting other merchants on beer and wine prices,the county council should just let them do what theyve been doing,bringing in revenue at no cost to the county and making the customers happy.