From Kousser's "The Shaping of Southern Politics":
A massive shift in the 1890 election swept in a 147-seat Democratic majority. The deepening depression and the Populist revolt, however, unmade the Democrats as quickly as those events had made them: the GOP enjoyed a 140 seat edge in the 1895-1896 House and maintained a majority until the Bull Moose split of 1912.
Of course there are important differences between then and now. The Democrats were hardly a party of racial progress, and the Populist were more than just Republicans by another name, which seems to be the case with the Tea Party.
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