>mbs: try reading the primary sources some time,
>particularly in "The Populist Reader," or on the
>Internet, compare it to other political commentary
>of the time, and then rethink whether it reflects
>'shallow and unthinking.'
From one of the sites you recommend, I learned about "the yeomanry's longstanding opposition to the building of railroads through their communities." Max, was the railroad a mistake?
Doug