How Could the Populists Have Broadened Their Political Platform to Appeal

question 79

Essay

How could the Populists have broadened their political platform to appeal equally to poor black farmers, poor white farmers, and the white industrial working class? What political, economic, and racial factors probably prevented the Populists from broadening their platform in the manner you have described above?

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