In most states, the "Redeemers" or "Bourbons" were typically composed of
A) a newly emerging class of merchants, industrialists, railroad developers, and financiers.
B) essentially the same old planter elite that had dominated antebellum politics.
C) a coalition of poor, working-class whites and blacks.
D) white farmers who owned small to medium farms.
E) Republicans and Democrats who favored the ideal of equal rights for all.