“Liquor sales have been restricted since at least the Middle Ages.”
So what?
“The swaths of the South I’ve been through don’t fully overlap yours, so perhaps it’s a regional thing.”
Avram is being very polite. I too have been all around the south and I’m going to go a step further: I think you’re flat out lying. There simply are not tablets with the ten commandments in anyone’s yards. You might have seen one and extrapolated it to the entire south.