Other important constituencies within the party were unskilled lumber workers and Marxian socialists, who were based in New Orleans.
After the party was criticized by the national committee, it was advised to focus on economic equality rather than racial issues.
Statewide in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs outpolled Republican Party nominee and incumbent president William Howard Taft and received 5,429 votes.
The party did not do as well in areas along the Mississippi River with rich alluvial soils, nor in New Orleans, which Debs received only 2.1% of the vote and the party's mayoral candidate received only 700 votes.
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