Who supported Prohibition and who oppesed it? Why did public support for Prohibition decline over time?

Question

This question comes from the Twenties and Thirties section of U.S. History. I need some help with this question. Please don't say do your own homework because this is where you come to get answers.

Answer 1

This should not be the first place you come to get answers...

But the answer above is pretty on-the-money...

Prohibition started as a moral crusade and although it actually had, ultimately a positive effect on drinking (when it was over there were, and remains to this day, a lower number of per capita drinkers) it created a major increase in organized crime.

SO it was legalized again and the profits went to taxable businesses...

Answer 2

I can tell ya to do your own homework as you have the history book and I dont. I also was a history major and had to do all this reading. Here is a clue which groups now are against drinking and alcoholism? It hasn't changed. Support declined as there was money to made bootlegging. It was the catalyst that gave the Mob/organized crime a real outlet for making $$. You just cant legislate morality.