Re: The meaning of "hillbilly"

From: Jeff <richaje_at_mTK4CUyw1BHEi50wwQ8Uam7dxj3W-vFUsbJgblwukm74fv8w47SYPNGuCHue5Bi5GzRs>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:32:31 -0000

> This whole "prohibition" stuff is extremely strange to a French. You'd think the
> american government would avoid mingling into peoples' private lives. Was it
> something religious ?

It is what happens when you give women the vote in a society where alcohol abuse and binge-drinking went hand in hand with domestic violence. The Temperance Movement (the anti-alcohol movement that led to Prohibition) was one of the driving forces of the Women's Sufferage Movement.

Jeff