1894 Daily Huronite (S. Dakota) 6 Oct. 2/2 ‘Protection is a cry which should make every American blush.’—Argus-Leader, South Dakota organ of democracy and popocracy.

1896 Boston Jrnl. 24 Oct. 7/3 He is ready to support Popocracy.

1901 Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 11 Dec. 4/4 The contest will lie between two factions of the democracy instead of between the republicans and popocracy.

1952 H. H. Quint Forging Amer. Socialism (1964) vii. 238 After the People's Party convention had cast the die for Popocracy, three distinct courses were open to socialists not affiliated with the Socialist Labor Party.

1962 Daily Herald 3 Apr. 6/2 The well-known rite in films and the popocracy (that influential little group of guitar-strumming teenage singers) of changing names to project the right brand image goes back farther than I thought.

1973 Observer 7 Oct. 39/1 He is a Nobel prizewinner, dresses with the Byronic panache of the popocracy.

1992 City Limits 2 July 7/2 Their approach to Telethon is to hold a bit of a ‘Great Britain rave’-cum-fashion show with PAs from the Adamski/MC Kinky/Betty Boo level of the popocrasy [sic].

2004 J. Mäkelä John Lennon Imagined vi. 146 New studio technology, psychedelia and the dialogue between ‘high’ and ‘low’..had..emerged among the ‘popocracy’ of Swinging London.