Temperance shifted from urban-left alliance to small-town-right alliance across a century

Evidence

Of course, such predictions are in no sense free from error, and surprises are numerous. The middle-class temperance movement in America, for example, which now seems “logically” allied with the small-town Republican right, had important alliances in the 19th century with the urban social left, on grounds equally well argued from temperance doctrines. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1867

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how a single moral posture can be coherently adopted by opposite political coalitions across time, illustrated through American temperance.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing material on moral panics and on dress/class signaling where identical norms shift political meaning. — connects to: Frontier temperance colonies policed drinking even beyond their own borders — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 49