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TransfemmeGoreVidal
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« on: January 05, 2021, 01:23:06 PM »

How might political parties have developed in a surviving confederacy? From the little reading I've done there's a lot of discussion about how officially there was sort of a consensus during the war that parties were bad but if they'd won the war it seems likely that this sentiment would have faded. I'm thinking a ruling party representing the slaveowners and ruling class with close ties to the military develops and that if there was any sort of left-wing party that emerged in opposition it would be a coalition of the Appalachian parts of the confederacy, big cities, religious minorities and (if they were even allowed to vote) Native Americans. It's also possible though that the franchise would be severely restricted to property owners (along with literacy tests) in some states, maybe so severely that a national opposition party would never be able to develop.
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