In this episode, we talk about the history of prohibition and how politicians and tacticians pushed through an overwhelmingly unpopular law making alcohol sales illegal. We chat about what overlaps we see with contemporary wedge issues, and the power of a dedicated but small voting block who leveraged rural/urban divides, racism, and xenophobia to change the course of history!
 
 
Sources:
 
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-road-to-prohibition/why-prohibition-happened/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/prohibition-anniversary-100.html
America walks into a bar : a spirited history of taverns and saloons, speakeasies, and grog shops
by Sismondo, Christine
https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-university
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/segregation-invented/517158/
https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1927042300