This is an area of current law that is suffering from the ratcheting effect of liberalism.  As Justice Scalia recently pointed out in oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder (and unfairly attacked therefor), it is increasingly impossible to even state a rational objection to anodyne-sounding things like the Voting Rights Act.  (Who, after all, could wish to deny the right to vote?)  The House recently caved to the Violence Against Women Act, even though it is riddled with constitutional and technical legal problems.  In the case of alcohol, and now marijuana, we have Mothers Against Drunk Driving pressing for ever smaller intoxicant content.  The thing that links these examples is a lack of limiting principle.  Every liberal objective has long been reached, but if acknowledged, these groups would have to go out of existence and hence lose power.  Anybody betting on this?

The problem here in South Carolina (as elsewhere) is that blue staters, while seeking economic freedom, keep their blue state mindset about government, not realizing (or maybe not caring) that their votes will end what they sought in moving here.