Who were support of prohibition?

Answer 1

The main supporters of Prohibition are as follows:

Women

Many women supported Prohibition because often times ther was lots of domestic abuse from drunk husbands/fathers.

A main group was the Women's Christian Temperance Union

Racists

Racists, like the KKK were big supporters of Prohibition. They believe that when African-Americans got their hands on alcohol, they would do horrible things. In fact, Frances Willard, a supporter of Prohibition once said, "the grogshop is the Negro's center of power. Better whiskey and more of it is the rallying cry of great dark-faced mobs"

Nationalists

Since most of the liquor was made by foreigners, many nationalists disliked it because they didn't like people from other countries. The Germans and Irish were the main brewers and distillers. Keep in mind that this is happening right after WW1, where Germany was our greatest enemy. Most people didn't like the German beer companies because they didn't like Germany. John Strange, a politician for Prohibition said "We have Germans enemies across the water. We have German enemies in this country too. And the worst of all the German enemies, the most treacherous, the most menacing, are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz and Miller [beer companies]. In fact, there were lots of discriminatory acts against German-Americans. Governor William L. Harding of Iowa declared speaking German in public or on the telephone unlawful. German books were burned in Wisconsin, playing Beethoven in public was banned in Boston, and throughout the country foodstuffs and street names of German origin were denatured by benign Anglo-Saxonisms. Nearly ninety years before French fries became freedom fries during the Iraq War, sauerkraut became liberty cabbage in an odd homage to the president, Cincinnati's Berlin Street became Woodrow Street.

Religious People

Many very religious people were for Prohibition. One of the most famous was Billy Sunday, a Baseball player and then a preacher. To Sunday, liquor was 'God's worst enemy' and 'hell's best friend,' and he considered those who profited from the alcohol trade earthly Satans. "I will fight them till hell freezes over," he told a rally at the University of Michigan, where he persuaded 1,000 students to join the campaign for a statewide Prohibition law. "Then I'll buy a pair of skates and fight 'em on the ice."

Also, the main political group was the ASL, anti-saloon league. They started pressure politics, a form of campaigning for a cause that the NRA uses today.

For much mre information on Prohibition, I suggest that you read Last Call by Daniel Okrent