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The passage situates voting behavior inside Tennessee's post-Reconstruction political order and competing ideas of public control.
Hannush presents the failed 1887 referendum as a conflict shaped by sectional, racial, gender, religious, class, and enforcement concerns rather than a simple wet-versus-dry moral choice. Black voters overwhelmingly opposed a campaign associated with coercive control and Klan support.
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The 1887 prohibition referendum
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