I was actually aware that the original Puritans drank (in those days, who didn't?), though their "liberal" descendants were early advocates of prohibitionism (which was finally enacted with Bible Belt support).
There's more to religion than deliberately attempting to live up to every "killjoy" stereotype someone has.
I am aware of that as well. However, as an old time Southern Republican whose roots lie not in Goldwater Dixieocracy but in the Federalist/anti-Masonic/Whig tradition I feel left out in the argument between liberals and cavaliers (I honestly don't think anyone even remembers Prohibition any more). As a Noachide I must acknowledge the validity of the Halakhically-permitted forms of alcohol, slavery, polygyny, and concubinage (quite a blow to my heritage), but I still identify with the long forgotten strait-laced Republican Puritan of previous generations who wouldn't play the lottery. If I wave this stereotype about like a flag it is because I am the only one on the conservative side of the spectrum who seems to remember it with all this libertarian garbage floating around.