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What no one could have anticipated was the direction America's postwar society would take in the late 1920s. A new and more exploitive age had arrived, a social order of a more cosmopolitan nature than the nation had ever known. Older forms of social control and the traditional values that had sustained them gave way to an entirely different outlook, the product of increased mobility, wealth, and opportunity. The Depression and the changes it would bring marked the end of an era. Prohibition simply no longer fit the American lifestyle. By 1932 the public's feelings respecting Prohibition had changed dramatically, a fact that did not escape the attention of the Democratic Party, which included repeal in its election platform. The strength of the Democratic showing in 1932 and the outpouring of public sentiment the election generated in favor of repeal was enough to move Congress to pass...
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