The Poor Prole’s Almanac

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