The NYTimes review raises an interesting comparison.

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), May 23, 2010 19:25

The prohibition movement was led by small town types that did not like the direction the country was heading in. There were too many immigrants at the time, and the big cities were destroying the moral fiber of the country. However the politicians were unable or unwilling to spend what it would have taken to have more than a 30% cut in booze consumption with the Volstead act. All this really accomplished was the crimininalization of an industry.

The larger issue is one that has happened at least one other time, the 1850s, with the American (Know Nothing) party, a mass movement that says stop the world I want to get off!!. When the rates of change in society get too great people want to slow change. This of course is what the Tea Party is about at heart, the changes in society.


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