The National Alcohol Beverage Control Association was established in 1937 as the nationwide organization representing the interests of alcohol beverage control or monopoly sale states in the U.S. Its stated mission is to support those states and areas in which governmental agencies exclusively wholesale and/or retail some form or forms (beer, wine or distilled spirits) of alcohol beverage.

Control jurisdictions currently are

• Alabama
• Idaho
• Maine
• Montgomery County, Maryland
• Worchester County, Maryland
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Montana
• New Hampshire
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wyoming

About one-fourth of the US population live in control areas.

Sources

• National Alcohol Beverage Control Association
• Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) or Monopoly States