Meta-contrarian: the Depression didn't have squat to do with it, Prohibition was unpopular and why FDR won in a landslide, as revealed by recently unearthed polling surveys: "The American Voter in 1932: Evidence from a Confidential Survey" https://www.gwern.net/docs/history/2018-norpoth.pdf … , Norporth 2018.
Today's heterodox take: yeah, prohibition totally worked guys. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470475/ …pic.twitter.com/LmmBrKPYoO
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No it didn't, it only halved alcohol consumption but it was still far from stopping it.
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