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=== Influence on later movements ===

Populist voters remained active in the electorate long after 1896, but historians continue to debate which party, if any, absorbed the largest share of them. In a case study of California Populists, historian Michael Magliari found that Populist voters influenced reform movements in California's Democratic Party and Socialist Party, but had a smaller impact on California's Republican Party.<ref>Magliari (1995), pp. 394, 411–412</ref> In 1990, historian William F. Holmes wrote, "an earlier generation of historians viewed Populism as the initiator of twentieth-century liberalism as manifested in Progressivism, but over the past two decades we have learned that fundamental differences separated the two movements."<ref>Holmes (1990), p. 58</ref> Most of the leading progressives (except Bryan) fiercely opposed Populism. Theodore Roosevelt, Norris, La Follette, [[William Allen White]] and Wilson all strongly opposed Populism.

It is debated whether any Populist ideas made their way into the Democratic Party during the New Deal era. The New Deal farm programs were designed by experts (like [[Henry A. Wallace]]) who had nothing to do with Populism{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}; the demand for such programs themselves, however, had been a populist demand.<ref name=frank/> [[Michael Kazin]]'s ''The Populist Persuasion'' (1995) argues that Populism reflected a rhetorical style that manifested itself in spokesmen like Father [[Charles Coughlin]] in the 1930s and Governor [[George Wallace]] in the 1960s. In ''Where Did the Party Go? William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy'' (2006) and ''Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism'' (2013), [[Jeff Taylor (politician)|Jeff Taylor]] argues that [[William Jennings Bryan]]'s liberalism was different from the New Deal liberalism of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Harry S. Truman]], [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Jeff|title=Where Did the Party Go? William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy |date=2006 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=9780826216618}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Taylor|first1=Jeff|title=Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism |date=2013|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9780739186749}}</ref>

[[Thomas Frank]] points out the continuity between Populism and [[socialism in the USA]], as many populists went on to become socialists and members of the [[Socialist Party of America]], including [[Eugene Debs]], a lot of the populist leadership and the newspaper ''[[Appeal to Reason (newspaper)|Appeal to Reason]]''. In addition, a "neo-populist" movement persisted in the form of the [[Nonpartisan League]] of [[North Dakota]]. In general, many of the demands of Populists were eventually realised by later movements, including leaving the [[gold standard]], a [[secret ballot]], [[women's suffrage]], an [[income tax]], an [[eight-hour workday]], and farm programs.<ref name=frank>Frank, Thomas. 2024. [https://jacobin.com/2024/02/populism-history-working-class-dig Populism Belongs to the Left. Jacobin 02.22.2024.]</ref>

Long after the dissolution of the Populist Party, other third parties, including a [[People's Party (United States, 1971)|People's Party]] founded in 1971, and a separate [[People's Party (United States, 2017)|People's Party]] founded in 2017 and a [[Populist Party (United States, 1984)|Populist Party]] founded in 1984, took on similar names. These parties were not directly related to the Populist Party.