Were there any demographics who supported women’s suffrage and were “wet”?
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« on: October 29, 2019, 02:21:50 AM »

In other words, was there any demographic that tended to support enfranchising women and tended to oppose alcohol prohibition?
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2019, 02:45:25 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2019, 07:09:58 AM »

Episcopalians, possibly.
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2019, 01:39:01 PM »


Probably not. Women's suffrage wouldn't have been popular with Episcopalians in the 19th century.

If I had to guess, certain Catholic groups (but not all Catholics as a whole), such as French and French-Canadian immigrants, might have favored women's suffrage while not being "dry".

But being "dry" was considered a women's rights issue back then; you have to understand that a big part of the anti-alcohol "dry" movement was intended to protect women from being beaten or abused by their drunk husbands, which explains why women were so prominent in many prohibition groups.
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2019, 07:23:56 PM »


Probably not. Women's suffrage wouldn't have been popular with Episcopalians in the 19th century.
Why wouldn’t 19th century Episcopalians have tended to support women’s suffrage?
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2019, 09:32:53 PM »


Probably not. Women's suffrage wouldn't have been popular with Episcopalians in the 19th century.
Why wouldn’t 19th century Episcopalians have tended to support women’s suffrage?

Episcopalians were (and are) very loyal to institutions and institutional power and very, very establishment (and, overall, rich). Women's suffrage was an inherently anti-institutional, anti-establishment movement that sought to overturn male-dominated centers of power. That would never have sat well with Episcopalian men, who were the power suffragists wanted to overthrow, or at least claim for themselves.

Episcopalian women might have favored suffrage, but no one was asking them, and in any case they would probably have, on net, been less likely to speak up about their opinions than women from other, much more suffrage-friendly denominations, like Congregationalists or Unitarians.

Witness that women's suffrage came even later in Britain than in the US (especially when you take into account that women's suffrage came decades earlier in parts of the western US than it did nationally), and of course Episcopalians have always been the most British Americans, in a wide variety of ways.
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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2019, 09:06:46 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2019, 07:20:57 PM »

Northern Methodists and Lutherans of German-American descent were split about prohibition.
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