During the Great Depression, hunger and joblessness increased interest among some voters in liquor-tax revenue, and Franklin D. Roosevelt made ending Prohibition part of his successful 1932 presidential campaign. These conditions created a political opening for Repeal but did not by themselves enact it.
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“Some voters” is the source’s scope. Do not quantify public opinion or make the Depression the sole cause without polling and electoral evidence.
The official House synthesis supplies the economic and campaign sequence; the existing Pegram chapter independently explains why discontent still required organization and a constitutional mechanism.
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