History shows that the populist and the republicans combined won the Democrats. However, the democrats still controlled North Carolina state government in 1898.
The Populists are a select group of people with interests in helping the masses or ordinary people.
It is a kind of movement that think the elites (that is the well-educated and the wealthy) are in a class of their own.
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