Published: Jul. 05, 2024, 11:43 a.m.I was born in a dry county in Alabama. No one is born in dry counties in Alabama today, because there aren’t any. While there are some counties that are technically dry, they all have “wet” municipalities in their borders. In Alabama, the dry county is extinct, gone the way of the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon.
Today, there are three full-fledged Poarch Creek Indian tribal casinos operating in Alabama.
They - Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and now Tennessee – get our money. But since we have reduced gambling operations in Alabama, we don’t pay the social costs – increased gambling addictions, increased crime, corruption – those “gambling states” do – right?Gambling prohibitionists usually dig their final line of defense on the societal ills associated with gambling. And those evils are real. However, those ills – like gambling itself – are already here in Alabama.