Editing People's Party (United States) (section)

=== Conspiratorial tendencies ===

Historians continue to debate the degree to which the Populists were bigoted against foreigners and [[Jews]].<ref>Turner (1980), pp. 355–356</ref> Members of the anti-Catholic [[American Protective Association]] were influential in California's Populist Party organization, and some Populists embraced the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the [[Rothschild family]] sought to control the United States.<ref name="Reichley 2000, p. 142">Reichley (2000), p. 142</ref> Historian [[Hasia Diner]] says:

: Some Populists believed that Jews made up a class of international financiers whose policies had ruined small family farms, they asserted, owned the banks and promoted the gold standard, the chief sources of their impoverishment. Agrarian radicalism posited the city as antithetical to American values, asserting that Jews were the essence of urban corruption.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hasia R. Diner|title=The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRQGybN2eboC&pg=PA170|year=2004|publisher=U. of California Press|page=170|isbn=9780520227736}}</ref>