"In the United States, resistance to women’s suffrage is attributed to traditional gender role ideology [...] Racism - specifically, fear that the enfranchisement of women might embolden and facilitate African American electoral participation in the South – also created an important barrier to suffrage expansion [...]. The powerful liquor industry, fearing that women voters would support Prohibition [opposed it]"
— Jan 07, 2020 04:16AM
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