Not to mention the criminalization of alcohol directly leading to the establishment of organized crime.
Organised crime existed before prohibition. what is the Klan if not organised crime?
which brings up a point. That's the reason why conservatives like 50 separate governments- at a national level, they're on equal terms, but in a single state they can heavily outnumbers Decent human beings. That explains their similar arguments in the antebellum period, and indeed the Confederacy itself. why coexist with nasty subhuman liberals when you could just create conservatopia and happily oppress gays, blacks, women and the poor to your heart's content?
I had one girl in my class ask why black people didn't move to escape segregated states.
They did move, in their millions. There was a mass migration of African-Americans from the South to the North* between 1850 or so and 1970 or so. But they found a society that was, if anything, more segregated- just less obviously so. Heard of redlining?
* And of whites to California. But that's just because Southern governments are historically shithouse.