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"December 5th marks what was the most important event in American history: Aaron Allen patenting the folding chair the end of Prohibition. The 21st Amendment, which grants us the right to imbibe and shut down the dry America of the 1920s, celebrates 80 glorious years of existence today. We figured this was the right time to clear up some facts you might have backwards on the dark, booze-less (but not really) age it ended. If your knowledge of speakeasies begins and ends with that completely legal one behind a donut shop in your hood, you're gonna want to listen up.\nIt wasn't just temperance activists who got Prohibition passed\nWWI-era anti-German sentiment played a role, since a lot of beer was coming out of Germany and importing it became seen as paying the Kaiser. Racists were also pro-Prohibition, because they didn't want black people to have any hooch, because -- surprise! -- they were crazy racist.\n\nBlind pigs existed long before 1920\nPoor Maine had been suffering through Prohibition for almost 70yrs by the time the rest of the nation went dry, so it's no surprise the \"blind pig\" code originated there. One enterprising saloonkeeper discovered he could circumvent the law if he charged patrons for tickets to see a \"blind pig\", and then just happened to hand out complimentary glasses of rum. The rest of the country was happy to crib his style when the Volstead Act reared its ugly head.\n\nYou didn't always use a password to get into a speakeasy\nThere were also cards that served as evidence of membership for regulars, like these."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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