Ruth Holladay has some of the history behind Indiana’s anachronistic Sunday liquor sale restrictions.

Among other things, the Klan was heavily aligned with the Prohibition movement and Indiana was heavily aligned with the Klan. Alcohol, of course, was a vice associated with those troublesome immigrants.

Ruth also informs us:

Winona Lake, home of the great evangelist Billy Sunday, became the national headquarters for the Prohibition Party — this was after prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. Indiana thus remained an anti-booze holdout, and Winona Lake remains a campgrounds for various evangelical Christian groups to meet. When I was at the Star, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union regularly held their national meetings in the state — where else?

I just love it when a history lesson erupts unexpectedly.