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Originally Posted by HVAC Instructor
True again, at least in modern Massachusetts. But wasn't New England once a Puritan conservative hotbed in early America? I do not know, but I would think it safe to wager, that at the time of the Massachusetts package store laws inception, they might just have been considered conservative. My point here is that prohibition type laws that have slipped through the cracks over the years originated from the conservative political philosophy.
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Most current liquor laws were written and implemented in the repeal of prohibition and modern "conservatism" and "liberalism" were not the political theories of that era. The current Republican and Democrat parties of this day bears little resemblance to those parties of that era. In fact, Oklahoma was probably a much more liberal state in that day, in fact there was much more religious influence on both parties back then and it was just an accepted practice that led to things like "Blue Laws" and influenced the liquor laws as well. In fact most say that states laws are due modernization and are "antiquated" due to the time at which more were written. I think the screwy liquor laws has pretty much nothing to do with modern conservatism, now the lack of modernization does.