Parties in a CSA

[hcallega]

Initially probably a Democratic Party and a Whig Party. The Democratic Party would be more of the poor white party, while the Whigs would be the bigger plantation farmers and city-goers (much like in the antebellum period). The Whigs would likely support greater industrialization and competition with the north for industrialization. The Democrats would be more agrarian and populist like in the Jefferson/Jackson model.

As time went on I believe that slavery would have been abolished, probably in the early 1900s when it was no longer economically practical. It also seems likely that there would be desegregation, most likely in the 1980s or '90s. At that point you would likely see the prominence of a Socialist Party that would draw African-American support.

[hcallega]

As it says in the end of The Last Full Measure, a confederacy would have turned into "The Kingdom of Alabama" or "The Duchy of Texas" before long. They simply did not agree on many issues outside of hating Lincoln.