Question

Throwback Question: What political strategy did both the Reconstruction-era Democrats and Governor Eugene Talmadge use to maintain power?(1 point)
Responses

Appealing to urban voters and business interests
Appealing to urban voters and business interests

Forming alliances with northern Republicans
Forming alliances with northern Republicans

Appealing to rural white voters
Appealing to rural white voters

Supporting progressive racial policies

Answer 1

Appealing to rural white voters.

Both used populist appeals to white rural constituencies and racialist themes to secure and maintain political power.