As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.

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He would use up White House liquor having nightcaps with the leaders and key members of BOTH parties.

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Prof Coker, author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, says the idea that consumption of alcohol is sinful is deeply embedded in the southern evangelical mind.

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"We popped into a liquor store and bought a bottle of champagne, a bottle of red and a bottle of white, " he said.

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