Populism in the form of organized political movements in the United States has been traced back to 1892 with the emergence of the Populist Party, Also Known as the People’s Party. Powerful mainly in agrarian parts of the Southern and Western United States, the Populist Party embraced parts of...
Why was the Populist Party created? Cotton prices continued to fall and dropped to 7.5¢ a pound by 1892, or about the cost of production. Efforts by farmers to bring economic and political change within the Bourbon-controlled Democratic Party seemed hopeless. This led Mississippi farmers to t...
In my primary preview, I compared him to an 1892-style upper-case-P Populist, whose presidential candidate James B. Weaver won five states on a progressive, pro-farmer platform. (He basically paved the way for William Jennings Bryan to be the dominant figure in Democratic politics for the ...
The Populists vowed to "restore the Government of the Republic to the hands of the 'plain people' with which class it originated" through such methods as an eight-hour day and nationalization of the railroads. In the 1930s, sit-down strikers proudly carried American flags into the auto plan...
In my primary preview, I compared him to an 1892-style upper-case-P Populist, whose presidential candidate James B. Weaver won five states on a progressive, pro-farmer platform. (He basically paved the way for William Jennings Bryan to be the dominant figure in Democratic politics for the ...