title: Mississippi Moonshine Politics:: How Bootleggers & the Law Kept a Dry State Soaked (True Crime)
author: Janice Branch Tracy
description: Janice Branch Tracy is a sixth generation Mississippian and author of The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hill s(History Press, 2014). Raised in Jackson, Mississippi, after graduating from Central High School and after that the University of Mississippi, Janice led a thirty-year career with the U.S. Government. After retiring in Dallas, Texas she started the Mississippi Memories blog, named one of the Top 40 Genealogy Blogs by Family Tree Magazine in 2011 and again in 2013.
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  By Daniel A. Adams
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  It was only a matter of time until the party turned into a drunken brawl. It
  wasn’t “if” it was “when” and judging by the flow of moonshine, when was
  coming very soon. What had started as a dozen men, knocking down pints of
  moonshine after a hard day at home on the couch, had turned into a full-blown
  party with well over two hundred men and women in attendance. It had started a
  little after 10:00 P.M. and by 2:00 A.M. most of the partygoers were well past
  drunk and on their way to passing out. A dozen or so “pick ‘em up trucks” were
  parked along the river bank with their lights aimed at a sand bar that
  extended out two hundred feet into a large, slow-flowing river. The license
  plates on the trucks told where—Mississippi and when was 2004, August 21 to be
  specific. A Saturday for anyone keeping track.
  
  
  
  
  
  The term men and women in Mississippi has a far different mean