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In popular culture, the American South is purported to have been an early bastion of the bourbon and US whisky industries. Paradoxically, the South played only an incidental role in whisky distillation, yet it played an instrumental role in the prohibition movement.
The year before the Civil War started in April 1861, the 11 southern Confederate States of America (CSA) drank more