By the time Prohibition ended there were barely a dozen (excluding moonshiners).

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It quickly expanded to take on the Ku Klux Klan, moonshiners and others "perpetrating fraud against the government, " according to the Secret Service website www.secretservice.gov.

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Pusser -- a determined foe of the gamblers and moonshiners in his Tennessee county -- while the title cut of "Decoration Day" was about a longstanding family feud.

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But NASCAR was born from moonshiners and the fight on the infield between the Allison brothers and Cale Yarborough during the 1979 Daytona 500 is given much of the credit for giving the sport national prominence.

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