Jeremy Horpedahl - Why Do Baptists Need Bootleggers?
The Curious Task
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The Coalition of Baptists and Bootleggers in Arkansas
The key for the coalition to be successful is that there is both a bootlegger who can provide financial resources. And there is a Baptist who can then provide the kind of moral argument for why this should be done. In almost all cases though where these drives are successful, the legalized alcohol sales, you didn't have a bootleggers in the coalition. The Baptist try to go it alone. They are usually not able to stop the signatures from being collected.
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