Confederate political parties

[Agonized-Statism]

Politics would largely be based on the caste system of Bacon's Rebellion: the Southern aristocracy playing poor whites off the slaves to keep themselves in power. National parties would be looser associations of state parties with the Confederacy's heavy emphasis on states' rights.

I suspect that the CSA would first get an anti-administration movement based in populist anger, blaming poor living conditions post-Civil War on the central government. This would eventually mature into a small-government, nativist, anti-interventionist, evangelical, "True Confederate" faction. The Southern elites would try crash-course industrialization after realizing that cotton was out and oil was in, and would eventually develop an establishment, law-and-order, imperialist party. This establishment party would be somewhat reformist and attract most former slaves after abolition in the 20th century. An illegal Communist Party resembling our Black Panthers is likely to develop in the black community then.