All of the following is true about the Eighteenth Amendment, EXCEPT:
a. It symbolized the effort to preserve white, old-stock, Protestant values.
b. Prohibition led to a dramatic drop in alcohol consumption.
c. Prohibition was never well enforced anywhere.
d. In 1926, only 19 percent of Americans supported the ban on liquor.
ANSWER: b
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