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Prior to the passage of Prohibition, the average American was consuming significantly more alcohol than they are today. If alcohol use was so widespread and popular, how was the temperance movement able to garner enough political support to completely ban it?

by /u/ExiledToTerminus in /r/AskHistorians

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