Wonder if the pictures in the ads include African Americans.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Jon Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> David, I will guess that it has something to do with advertising. Which
> Canadian whiskies are they preferring in these pockets of the South? Black
> Velvet and Crown Royal both have fairly successful and long-running
> advertising campaigns that have gathered some loyal drinkers who buy into
> the image those ads are selling. Also I am curious if these whiskies are
> popular across the spectrum of ethnicities or if one demographic in
> particular has bought enough of the stuff to sway the statistics your
> journalist is studying. Jon
>
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> Encyclopedia
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> On Jan 23, 2010, at 10:01 AM, David Fahey wrote:
>
>> I received a couple of questions from a journalist and had no answer.
>> Can anybody help?
>>
>> 1) why Canadian whiskey is so popular in pockets of the South -- in
>> parts of rural Arkansas, the drink of choice.
>> 2) whether Southern loyalty to Kentucky and Tennessee whiskey is on
>> the decline (or has been for a long while).
>>
>> Maybe my problem is that I haven't drunk Canadian whiskey, bourbon, or
>> Tennessee whiskey in many years.  I am under the impression that the
>> dark whiskies and rums have lost market share for a long time, so I
>> don't think that I'm unique.
>>
>> --
>> David M. Fahey
>> Professor Emeritus of History
>> Miami University
>> Oxford, Ohio 45056
>> USA
>



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David M. Fahey
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Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
USA