Editing Clarke County, Alabama (section)

===Alcohol prohibition===
Following the national [[repeal of prohibition]] in 1933, Clarke County voted to become a [[dry county]] in 1937, when wet-dry counties were established in Alabama.<ref name="southalabamian">{{cite news |title='Yes' to Jackson alcohol sales |author=Evan Carden |url=http://www.southalabamian.com/news/2005-05-12/Front_Page/001.html |newspaper=The South Alabamian |date=May 12, 2005 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928012018/http://www.southalabamian.com/news/2005-05-12/Front_Page/001.html |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the first decade of the 21st century, the county's largest communities voted to legalize alcohol sales: [[Jackson, Alabama|Jackson]] on May 10, 2005; [[Thomasville, Alabama|Thomasville]] on August 14, 2007; and [[Grove Hill, Alabama|Grove Hill]] on November 3, 2009.<ref name="southalabamian"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Thomasville goes wet |author=Arthur McLean |url=http://www.thethomasvilletimes.com/news/2007-08-16/front_page/001.html |newspaper=The Thomasville Times |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929182549/http://www.thethomasvilletimes.com/news/2007-08-16/front_page/001.html |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Voters in Grove Hill approve sale of alcohol inside city |author=Connie Baggett |url=http://blog.al.com/live/2009/11/voters_in_grove_hill_approve_s.html |newspaper=Press-Register |date=November 3, 2009 |access-date=July 24, 2011}}</ref>