South Carolina prohibition map

[RBH]

The 1940 liquor referendum from "Southern Primaries and Elections":



Sooooo very sectional.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Quite a notable correlation between the Dry counties and the Baptist counties as well.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Are any counties still dry?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Probably

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No counties are dry in South Carolina.  The only thing that's local option about alcohol sales in this State is how strict the limits are to be for Sunday sales and the closing time for bars.

[Cubby]

Quite a notable correlation between the Dry counties and the Baptist counties as well.

What religion are the blue counties on that map?

I thought most of the rural South was Baptist (both whites and blacks)

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

No counties are dry in South Carolina.  The only thing that's local option about alcohol sales in this State is how strict the limits are to be for Sunday sales and the closing time for bars.

Wow

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Quite a notable correlation between the Dry counties and the Baptist counties as well.

What religion are the blue counties on that map?

I thought most of the rural South was Baptist (both whites and blacks)

A fair number of Baptists in the low country too, but the Methodists and Episcopalians are more numerous towards the coast and there are pockets of Lutherans and Presbyterians here and there where Germans and Scots settled during the colonial days.  I live in a rural community of around 10,000 people including the surrounding rural area in the Midlands and in our local Yellow Pages under churches there are 15 Baptist, 9 Methodist, 7 Lutheran, 3 Pentecostal,  2 Independent, and 1 each of Catholic, Church of Christ, Episcopal, Jehovah's Witness, and Presbyterian.

[jimrtex]

Quite a notable correlation between the Dry counties and the Baptist counties as well.

What religion are the blue counties on that map?

I thought most of the rural South was Baptist (both whites and blacks)

A fair number of Baptists in the low country too, but the Methodists and Episcopalians are more numerous towards the coast and there are pockets of Lutherans and Presbyterians here and there where Germans and Scots settled during the colonial days.  I live in a rural community of around 10,000 people including the surrounding rural area in the Midlands and in our local Yellow Pages under churches there are 15 Baptist, 9 Methodist, 7 Lutheran, 3 Pentecostal,  2 Independent, and 1 each of Catholic, Church of Christ, Episcopal, Jehovah's Witness, and Presbyterian.

Is there still a significant Hugenot presence?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Is there still a significant Hugenot presence?

Not much, and that mostly in the low country.  There never were that many Huguenot immigrants, they just happened to be influential since most of them came to the colony as relatively rich refugees early in the history of South Carolina.  For the most part the Huguenots of South Carolina merged with other Reformed churches such as the Presbyterians. There is an independent Huguenot church in Charleston, but I think its the only one in the State.