Use to establish long-run causation and path dependence rather than a sudden wartime origin.
The chapter tests the claim that wartime conditions chiefly caused the Eighteenth Amendment.
Ann-Marie E. Szymanski traces national Prohibition to decades of local-option campaigns, dry-state expansion, state constitutional change, organizational learning, and accumulating electoral strength that preceded United States entry into the First World War.
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Myth 4 — The prewar path to national Prohibition
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