> Northern farmers were concerned, out of sight and hence out of mind. For
> Soutehrn populists, it was a different story. Although there are a lot of
> stories of black-white cooperation among Southern agrarian elements, the white
> Populist record on race was patchy at best and outrightly hostile at worst.
> Bear in mind that Southern Populists saw themselves as oppressed by Northern
> capital, which they identified with the GOP. This was the same party that had
> rampaged through Georgia during the Civil War and which was now pressing them
> economically to the wall. Since the Republicans were perceived in the South
> as the friend of the blacks -- and indeed most blacks who still voted did so
> for the GOP -- hard-pressed white farmers gravitated to an anti-black, anti-
> Republican position.
This is pretty much how it seems in Leon Litwack's newly released history of the Jim Crow South, but then I only look up populism in the index. best, rakesh