Even before prohibition moonshine was being created. This is due to the government taxing alcohol so these individuals made their own as a sort of
rebellion. In 1920, the Volstead Act was passed, better known as The National Prohibition Act. Liquor in America was now outlawed changing America's landscape dramatically. During the years of 1920-1933, moonshine production exploded. Gangsters quickly took over the industry, creating large moonshining networks. Bootlegging of alcohol was everywhere and the transportation of moonshine would begin in the remote southern hills. Moonshinine was popular in many places in the South during the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, but was concentrated in the Blue Ridge Mountains, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and western South Carolina. The rise of local and state-wide temperance or prohibition movements increased the demand for their supply and also exploded in metropolitan areas in such city areas as Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City. Obviously failing, the government repealed prohibition in 1933 but moonshine continued to flourish through the 30's and 40's.
rebellion. In 1920, the Volstead Act was passed, better known as The National Prohibition Act. Liquor in America was now outlawed changing America's landscape dramatically. During the years of 1920-1933, moonshine production exploded. Gangsters quickly took over the industry, creating large moonshining networks. Bootlegging of alcohol was everywhere and the transportation of moonshine would begin in the remote southern hills. Moonshinine was popular in many places in the South during the last part of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, but was concentrated in the Blue Ridge Mountains, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and western South Carolina. The rise of local and state-wide temperance or prohibition movements increased the demand for their supply and also exploded in metropolitan areas in such city areas as Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City. Obviously failing, the government repealed prohibition in 1933 but moonshine continued to flourish through the 30's and 40's.
NASCAR
During this time the very popular sport Nascar was born. Nascar's roots go back to Prohibition when runners, people who delivered moonshine, a home-brewed whiskey distilled from corn, potatoes or anything that could ferment stocked up their cars so they could give the slip to the federal tax agents. Runners built their reputations by outsmarting and out driving the law. For bragging rights, they held informal races to determine which runner was fastest. By the end of the 1940s, those contests had become an organized sport, largely due to the efforts of one driver, Big Bill France. Big Bill organized a meeting of drivers, car owners and mechanics at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida on December 14, 1947, to establish standard rules for racing. There and then the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (Nascar) was created. Two months later, on February 15, 1948, the first official Nascar race was held on the beach in Daytona. Red Byron won it in his Ford. A week later, Nascar was incorporated, and Big Bill appointed as its leader.