Continued Black voting prevented Democrats from entrenching their rule. Amid the agrarian depression of the 1880s and early 1890s, third-party forces—Independents, Greenbackers, Readjusters, Farmers’ Alliances, and, beginning in 1892, the Populist Party—won support among disaffected white farmers and, often working with Republicans, forged biracial coalitions to defy Democratic single-party rule.
