CUIP founded in the wake of the Perot rebellion, giving rise to a left/center/right coalition.  Participates in founding the national Patriot Party, an unorthodox coalition of the overtaxed and underserved. “Simply put,” states chairman Nick Sabatine in convention remarks “independents are now the majority party in America.  And I think our presence here today disproves another myth about independents, that we’re all angry white men. Judging by our delegates I would say that independents, at least Patriot Party independents, are also angry white women, angry black women, angry black men. We are America here.”