The American temperance and prohibition movements included currents of anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-immigrant, and anti-German politics, so alcohol reform cannot be explained only as a neutral public-health campaign.
The claim concerns documented currents and coalitions, not every temperance supporter. Use direct organizational records and specialist scholarship before publication.
Cowdery cites the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku Klux Klan, wartime anti-German pressure, and anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant rhetoric, while pointing to Marni Davis’s specialist work as a verification lead.
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This claim qualifies moral-reform narratives by identifying the identity politics that accompanied parts of the movement. Scope language is essential: inclusion of these currents does not make every participant’s motive identical.