Holly Berkley Fletcher is a PhD historian and former CIA analyst. Her book, The Missionary Kids, is due out in August. 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.
