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=== Populist-Republican fusion in North Carolina ===
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In 1894–1896, the Populist wave of agrarian unrest swept through the cotton and tobacco regions of the South.<ref name="nyt-bouie-2019">{{cite web |last1=Bouie |first1=Jamelle |title=America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/republicans-racism-african-americans.html |author-link=Jamelle Bouie |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=20 August 2019 |date=August 14, 2019 |quote=Despite insurgencies at home — the Populist Party, for example, swept through Georgia and North Carolina in the 1890s...}}</ref> The most dramatic impact was in North Carolina, where the poor white farmers who comprised the Populist party formed a working coalition with the Republican Party, then largely controlled by blacks in the low country, and poor whites in the mountain districts. They took control of the state legislature in both 1894 and 1896, and the governorship in 1896. Restrictive rules on voting were repealed. In 1895 the legislature rewarded its black allies with patronage, naming 300 black magistrates in eastern districts, as well as deputy sheriffs and city policemen. They also received some federal patronage from the coalition congressman, and state patronage from the governor.<ref>[[Helen G. Edmonds]], ''[[The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901]]'' (1951). pp 97–136</ref>