"United We Stand, Divided We Fall"

Populists also contended that farmers and laborers common status as producers made them natural allies.  Here, members of the Knights of Labor, Farmers Alliance, and other similar organizations rally together.  This coalition worked well in the South and West where both groups  largely came from the same ethnic group.  The party appeared to make some headway in the heavily-ethnic Northeast  and Midwest in the mid-1890s.  

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