Aren't we really talking about restrictions for alcohol consumption by Africans or African-descended people and indigenous peoples in the Americas amd Australia/NZ? Was there much objection to Esat Asians and South Asians and Middle Eastern people drinking? "White" may be the wrong word for this discussion. I recall Gandhi lamented the drinking by Indian laborers in South Africa around 1900. They could drink legally only at bars but there they could drink as much as they wanted. There is a reference to this in the Historian (2005) article that I wrote with Padma Manian.