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Old 10-15-2016, 08:15 PM   #13 (permalink)
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How was it the driving force behind prohibition?
I'll answer this tomorrow, cause I'm about to pass out, but prohibition was all about urban v. rural, protestant v. catholic, and immigrant v. non-immigrant. Alcohol was just the flashpoint that the rural, protestant, small town Americans used as a smoke screen to be prejudiced. Very much like now.

Not to mention it was also about the Industrial Revolution's effects on small town America.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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