A more recent lesson can be found in Daniel Okrent’s “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition”. The “dry” forces exploited public schools to push forth their anti alcohol ideals and allied themselves with even the KKK (who blamed alcohol consumption on Jews and Catholics). Yet the bootlegging and rum running and illegal stills continued and politicians and others responsible for enacting and enforcing Prohibition kept large private stashes of alcohol for themselves, adding to the hypocrisy. All of this contributed to the grand failure that Prohibition was.
Well, there was NASCAR, for awhile.
Peach