1888
West Virginia voters reject an early prohibition amendment
After years of temperance organizing, an attempt to place statewide prohibition in the West Virginia Constitution failed at the polls. The defeat shows that the state's eventual prohibition law emerged from a long and contested campaign rather than appearing suddenly in the twentieth century.
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