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.