The History of the Democratic Party in America

The Democratic Party absorbed them in 1896 with a very watered down version of their of what the populace were demanding. They triggered an extraordinary backlash, just unbelievable. It was one of the few times in American history where you really had a black and white multi racial working class having some success trying to come together. And so they basically go back to the parties that they originally came from. Some of them go over to the very brand new American Socialist Party,. Like Eugene Deb's right, populist, he he signs up with that.