From Prohibition to Propagating
Bill Minor, dean of Mississippi political commentators, reflects on the irony surrounding Mississippi’s transition in the 1960s from a state that prohibited liquor to one that dove head first into the distribution and sale of it: “What came out of the Legislature was a unique system allowing counties to vote in legal sales of liquor by package stores with the State Tax Commission as the monopoly wholesaler. That would be a big switch: from a state that for a half century prohibited booze to one that would now become its distributor.”