Last dry county in Alabama votes to keep no-alcohol rule
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Clay County is the only county left in Alabama where there isn't a single place that you can't buy a beer legally. And there are plenty of people there happy to keep it that way.
It's a scenic but poor county of about 14,000 people in the hills about 50 miles east of Birmingham.
It isn't illegal to have a small amount of alcohol in Clay County, and lots of people go across the county line to buy it and take it home. Wayne Watts, the county commission chairman and a former police chief, says it's an open secret that you can buy it from bootleggers, too.
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People like the Rev. Bruce Willis say it's unlikely the county will ever go wet. He says people won't vote for it in a rural area where family values are important.