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Was a partial prohibition of this type considered? I realize the prohibition we had was partly promoted to punish the German immigrants around World War I because they were the "enemy."

The implications are significant. Wine-loving Italians would not have to resort to a Sicilian Mafia-based infrastructure for black-market products. Of course mobsters came from all ethnic groups. You might eliminate the large underground economy that spread into racketeering, gambling and bookmaking and persisted many decades after prohibition was repealed. In fact, the mobs faded only after interest in horse racing dropped off and the remaining illicit markets were oriented to illegal drugs, the supplies and customers of which could not be so easily controlled.
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