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 The
American Independent
Party was organized in 1967 on a
strong states' rights platform. Its first
presidential candidate was George C. Wallace,
then Governor of Alabama. |
 The Free Soil Party
was formed by angry Democrats in 1848. The platform of the Free Soil Party
opposed the extension of slavery into new
territories or states, but carefully avoided the
question of whether slavery itself should remain
legal. |
 The People's Party
also known as the Populist Party,
grew out of dissatisfaction with the way
Democrats and Republicans alike were dealing with
the financial crisis then affecting poor, white
cotton farmers in the South and drought-stricken
wheat farmers in the Plains. It was formed in
Omaha, Nebraska, in 1892. |
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