During the nineteenth century, an anti-elitist movement attempted to unite poor Whites and Blacks in the rural South against the traditional elite classes. This movement was called ______.

A. maquiladoras movement
B. populism (or the populist movement)
C. paternalism (or the paternalistic movement)
D. poor people's movement


Answer: B

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