State Senator Chris McDaniel's still-contested narrow loss to incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in Mississippi's Republican runoff last month exposed a divide with the Republican Party possibly as wide as the divide that ultimately split the one-party Democratic South in the 1890s between the "Bourbon" establishment and the rebellious "Populists."
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A 1904 Populist Party campaign poster for presidential candidate Tom Watson of Georgia.
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A 1904 Populist Party campaign poster for presidential candidate Tom Watson of Georgia.
