Compulsory government schooling was instituted so that kids could read the Bible. There are no Yankees in NYC except those that moved there. The definition of Yankee, in Mass anyway, is of long time English descent and Protestant. Proibitionism was instituted to keep the Irish in line and we have been paying for it since,
Just as clarification (probably unneeded), the italicized remark in #15 is DiLorenzo's, not mine.
Probably due to lack of Old Bushmill's, the ability to make Irish Coffee was lost. Now, in the States, they serve up some wretched concoction with whipped cream on top.