And it was 3.2% beer in Kansas 40 years ago. Anything stronger was illegal then, in both Kansas and Oklahoma.
As Pat says, Kansas, like other places, has changed over the past
40 years. Especially towns like Wellington, on the Kansas Turnpike with its volume of travelers the towns want to lure, and with a very viable supermarket (Dillon's, the Kansas operation of Kroger's), which Independence seems to lack. Wellington has a WalMart supercenter, too, near the Dillon's store.The county of which Wellington is the county seat produces more wheat than any other county in the United States, and with the wheat and tourist traffic and a crew change point on the BNSF (formerly Santa Fe) Chicago-Los Angeles main line, it's a pretty prosperous place. (The county history museum has a great deal of local Santa Fe history.)
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