SHANNON K. O'NEIL
This claim has very often been true especially in South and Latin America, but in the United States generally it has been a delusion that the populists are in the majority although the general have been neglected and as a result they defy a powerful majority. Good examples of this are the Southern populist movements after the Civil War, the Populist Party, and the Populism of the second decade of the 21st century.
Shannon K. O'Neil is a senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization. Her interests and expertise include politics and economics in Latin America and immigration. She is the director of the U.S.-Mexico Initiative at CFR. O'Neil publishes the blogs Latin America’s Moment and Latintelligence.
