Why Did Significant Third-Party Factions Emerge While Texas Was Still

question 52

Multiple Choice

Why did significant third-party factions emerge while Texas was still a one-party state?

• A) Third parties were able to capitalize on the weakness of the Republican Party and substituted for it.
• B) They were the only alternative to the Democratic Party because the Republican Party was banned.
• C) They never were an alternative to the Democratic Party but factions of disenfranchised Democrats.
• D) They represented the radical fringe of leftist ideology which was not represented in the Democratic Party.
• E) Considerable funding came from out-of-state sources to build third parties to challenge the Democrats.

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