CSA Soft drinks Industry?

The CSA Soft drink industry?

  • Southern Soft drink industry remains local.

    Votes: 19 52.8%
  • Southern Soft drink industry becomes international.

    Votes: 4 11.1%
  • Southern Soft drink Brands beats Northern Soft drink Brands

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • Southern Soft drink Brands loses to Northern Soft drinkBrands

    Votes: 7 19.4%

  • Total voters
    36
Where was the temperance movement strongest? Was one or both nations going to have prohibition? On one hand I see alcohol being illegally shipped in, but at the same time a strong soft drink industry could achieve a lasting dominance.
On a state level, almost the whole South was state-level dry by the time of prohibition: Oklahoma went dry in 1907, Georgia and Mississippi 1908, North Carolina and Tennessee in 1909, West Virginia in 1914, Alabama and South Carolina in 1915, Arkansas and Virginia in 1916, Florida in 1918, and Texas and Kentucky in 1919.
 
As a rule of thumb, the Temperance movement was strongest where there were fewer Catholics and more Protestants, particularly evangelical Protestants. Southern Baptists advocated abstinence, as did such demoninations as Seventh Day Adventists,

For example, Methodists were strongly in favor of temperance. This is why Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, was basically dry up until the late 20th century. It had a large and powerful Methodist population. This was in part due to its being home of a large (one-time) Methodist university, Northwestern University, and a seminary.

The Temperance movement was also associated with some progressive ideas, such as a living wage, an 8 hour work day, and women's sufferage.

Where was the temperance movement strongest? Was one or both nations going to have prohibition? On one hand I see alcohol being illegally shipped in, but at the same time a strong soft drink industry could achieve a lasting dominance.
 
CT gets you the Avery Soda and Foxon Park brands but Avery is also more a cream and root beer.. Interesting thing is where does KY fall do they stay a USA Border state or in the hands of the CSA. If they stay with the North. Bourbon and Ginger Ale becomes the popular drink over Bourbon and Coke
 
On a state level, almost the whole South was state-level dry by the time of prohibition: Oklahoma went dry in 1907, Georgia and Mississippi 1908, North Carolina and Tennessee in 1909, West Virginia in 1914, Alabama and South Carolina in 1915, Arkansas and Virginia in 1916, Florida in 1918, and Texas and Kentucky in 1919.
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My idea is that all of the iconic brands: Coca Cola, Pepsi, Dr. pepper and co, got their start because they had a steady market in the soda parlors and drug stores of the re-united USA which not only included the traditional North and South states but also the new west coast and the states in-between. So even if one side will eventually include California or Seattle, it will still not have the domestic market it needs to become a truely global player. May be New York by itself is big enough to have a soft drink conglomerate that can project out to the nearby states and countries. But internationally, it will be dwarfed by the brands under the Lipton Co. Umbrella.
 

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Okay. Month's young, but y'all have my vote for the most unique POD/WI of the month.
 
While Coca Cola and Pepsi in OTL are global brand, most countries have many local brands of soda. I don’t expect any other timeline to be different, CSA will have it own brand of soda, but the major global brand will also enter the Confederate market. CSA will lack the cultural strength to the producer of those brands. There’s a reason that the two biggest global soda brand are American.
 
There’s a reason that the two biggest global soda brand are American.

Coca Cola getting the goahead to make bottling plants where there were US Servicemen in WWII, and exempt from sugar rationing had much to do with them becoming the first big multinational
 
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