Supports a coalition model; it does not imply every progressive or religious body supported national Prohibition.
This is evidence of coalition building among actors who did not share one comprehensive ideology.
Coker shows progressive Social Gospel reformers and the Anti-Saloon League cooperating despite different theological and political emphases, with each finding the attack on the saloon compatible with broader projects of social reform.
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Myth 2 — Progressive Christianity and the Anti-Saloon League
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