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.