<Li> Politics of United States </Li> <P> The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian - populist political party in the United States . For a few years, 1892--96, it played a major role as a left - wing force in American politics . It was merged into the Democratic Party in 1896; a small independent remnant survived until 1908 . It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left - wing of American politics . It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement . </P> <P> Established in 1891, as a result of the Populist movement, the People's Party reached its peak in the 1892 presidential election, when its ticket, composed of James B. Weaver and James G. Field, won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried five states (Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada and North Dakota), and the 1894 House of Representatives elections, when it took over 10% of the vote . Built on a coalition of poor, white cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama and Texas) and hard - pressed wheat farmers in the Plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), the Populists represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to elites, cities, banks, railroads, and gold . </P> <P> The party sometimes allied with labor unions in the North and Republicans in the South . In the 1896 presidential elections the Populists endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adding their own vice presidential nominee . By joining with the Democrats, the People's Party lost its independent identity and rapidly withered away . </P>

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