WI: Alcohol Prohibition had no unintended consequences

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but what if Prohibition had been limited to hard alcohol as many had initially expected it would?

Beer and wine being allowed while harder stuff was illegal may even prevent the repeal of Prohibition, with there not being the political will to go through repealing an entire amendment if hard liquor is supplanted by beers and wines in popular culture.

The US today would be seen as rather odd but a lot of other Western countries for their lack of hard alcohol or anything that'd really knock you on your ass if you took shots of it, but there would almost certainly be a wide variety of beers and wines that may even lean on the harder side without crossing into illegality.

That of course might not be what the OP intended, but it would have a significantly better chance to work.

You'd still get repeal, I think (never mind Civil Rights, Lyndon Johnson would make that a personal crusade...). As a compromise though, one might see the Scandinavian option of states monopolising hard liquor sales.
 
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