Holly Berkley Fletcher is a PhD historian, former CIA analyst, and author of the award-winning book, The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism. She writes on Substack at A Zebra Without Stripes.
Before its more famous 20th century iteration, the temperance movement demonstrated the value of mass persuasion over force as a tool of cultural change.
Southern democracy, like every other aspect of Southern society, was shaped by the political and economic needs of the slaveholding planter class and is maintained by the MAGA movement via shame and projection.
