"All Memphis Ford’s believe that they have been knighted by God to run the city and state and country."
Well, he was a Ford, so he wasn't drunk. He just had "low blood", like his drunk @$$ mother/aunt/grandmother or whomever it was that fell off her barstool (and coincidentally, wasn't drunk either).
That would be the lovely and talented Ophelia Ford. Quite a class act, I’m told.