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"Any evidence to the contrary notwithstanding,national prohibition rapidly acquired an image,not as a law which significantly reduced the use of alcoholic beverages,but rather as a law that was widely flouted… Even given a 60 percent drop in total national alcohol consumption,a considerable amount of imbibing still took place.Yet the image also derived in part from the unusually visible character of those prohibition violations which did occur… Most drinking took place… in urban areas where practically any activity was more likely to be witnessed… The fact that the upper classes were doing much of the imbibing further heightened its visibility."
David E.Kyvig,Repealing National Prohibition,1979
-The problems described in the passage most directly intensified conflicts between

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The passage describes the failure of national prohibition and the widespread flouting of the law. This failure intensified conflicts between supporters of the fundamentalist approach, who believed that Prohibition was necessary to preserve traditional American values, and supporters of the modernist approach, who believed that Prohibition was a misguided and ineffective policy that should be repealed. The passage does not mention conflicts between Americans of different races, isolationists and interventionists, or opponents and proponents of new technologies.

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