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The National Alcohol Beverage Control Association [NABCA] was established in 1937 as the nationwide organization representing the interests of alcoholic beverage control states or monopoly sale states in the United States. The NABCA's 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 beverages. Alcoholic beverage control states, generally called control states, are those in the United States that have state monopoly over the wholesaling and/or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, distilled spirits. ...
See Alcoholic beverage control state for a list of "control states" and their exact level of control. Alcoholic beverage control states, generally called control states, are those in the United States that have state monopoly over the wholesaling and/or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine, distilled spirits. ...
About one-fourth of the US population live in control areas.