Tbf that one was mostly due to anti-immigrant racism, which makes practically any political program go down a lot easier. And specifically anti-german and anti-irish racism played REALLY well in the bible belt.
It also coincided with suffrage and women first entering the voting blocs, and women were overwhelmingly sick and tired of their abusive drunk ass male relatives and husbands.
America did (and does) have a massive alcoholism problem. Prohibition wasn’t the correct way to address it, but it’s understandable when like half the population are violent drunken slobs.
Conditions at that time were abhorrent and people were even rationed whiskey at work to make it more tolerable. Its just that alcohol was cheap and plentiful. Look up the gin epidemic in England. Cheap hard liquor hit their working class like a freight train.
True. I was referring to anecdotes I had read of Bleeding Kansas, a bit before prohibition, where literally all the combatants on the slavery side were constantly shitfaced and killing civilians. Like there was an entire class of guy who was just drunk and violent 24/7
Tbf that one was mostly due to anti-immigrant racism, which makes practically any political program go down a lot easier. And specifically anti-german and anti-irish racism played REALLY well in the bible belt.
It also coincided with suffrage and women first entering the voting blocs, and women were overwhelmingly sick and tired of their abusive drunk ass male relatives and husbands.
America did (and does) have a massive alcoholism problem. Prohibition wasn’t the correct way to address it, but it’s understandable when like half the population are violent drunken slobs.
Conditions at that time were abhorrent and people were even rationed whiskey at work to make it more tolerable. Its just that alcohol was cheap and plentiful. Look up the gin epidemic in England. Cheap hard liquor hit their working class like a freight train.
True. I was referring to anecdotes I had read of Bleeding Kansas, a bit before prohibition, where literally all the combatants on the slavery side were constantly shitfaced and killing civilians. Like there was an entire class of guy who was just drunk and violent 24/7
Sounds like the slaver side was channeling Dirlewanger Brigade energy a century early
Same thing with drug laws we have today, only passed because of racism