DBAHC: Save the Democratic Party after 1865

I know that most people here think that after the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination the Democrats were bound to collapse, but I think that notion is rooted in historical determinism. So here is my challenge: with a POD no earlier than April 14th, 1865, have the Democratic Party survive.
 
Could the POD be on April 14th, 1865 itself? If the Booth conspiracy fails to assassinate Lincoln, Johnson, Seward, and Grant its not an attempted coup, there is no state of emergency, and maybe the government doesn't look too hard into the links between the conspirators and various Democratic politicians. With no period of one party Republican rule, inertia and the logic of the two party system will re-assert themselves. Even if one or two of the targets get nailed, as long as it is not Lincoln, I think alot of that stuff would be swept under the rug.
 
Well I honestly think the military governments that formed after the assassinations did a great job breaking the slavocracy. Despite there are many accomplishments such as The confiscation of the land of every Confederate plantar to be distributed among their slaves, The mass trials of the South’s political class and the subsequent mass executions there was some very big downsides. The military government was inherently unstable. Numerous members plotted against each other and wasted substantial amounts of money on personal projects. It brought the idea that the military can take power if they decide it is necessary into reality.
 
Despite there are many accomplishments such as The confiscation of the land of every Confederate plantar to be distributed among their slaves,

Let's not forget the major strides in Civil Rights. In fact, those accomplishments are why the "Glorious Twenty-Five Years" (as the dictatorship period was once called) is still hotly debated among Americans.
 
Let's not forget the major strides in Civil Rights. In fact, those accomplishments are why the "Glorious Twenty-Five Years" (as the dictatorship period was once called) is still hotly debated among Americans.
I didn’t want to state the one that we all learned in school I wanted to go less well-known reasons.
 
You'd also have to have the Republicans not be as soft on strikers- allow for things like Pinkertons (who were nasty until they were suppressed)- this might have crushed the Socialist party in the crib.

Reconstruction failing (it was a close run thing) might have kept racial resentment among the lower classes strong enough to prevent racial equality in unions.
 
What about my idea of having the split between moderate and radical factions within the Republican Party be less permanent? Histroically, the moderate faction within the GOP absorbed the "War Democrats" and Southern Unionists after they split from the "Radical Republicans". While they agreed on the need to break the power of the Planters, the Liberals and the Republicans disagreed heavily on who should benefit more as the Republicans wanted freed slaves to benefit more while the Liberals wanted the Yeoman class of middle-class whites along with poor whites to benefit more.
 
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Basically you have to prevent the Socialist Labor Party recruiting immigrants right off the boats during the period after Reconstruction. There were still Democrat electoral holdouts until the 1890s, but once the SLP gained prevalence in the industrial North and as the Republicans became more nativist beginning with the election of William D. Hoard in 1892 the traditional support base for the Democrats in immigrant populations was pushed towards the SLP, leading to the final demise of Jefferson's party.

Now, the impacts of not having one of the most radical socialist parties involved in electoral politics anywhere in the world in the USA would be interesting to say the least.
 
Well I honestly think the military governments that formed after the assassinations did a great job breaking the slavocracy. Despite there are many accomplishments such as The confiscation of the land of every Confederate plantar to be distributed among their slaves, The mass trials of the South’s political class and the subsequent mass executions there was some very big downsides. The military government was inherently unstable. Numerous members plotted against each other and wasted substantial amounts of money on personal projects. It brought the idea that the military can take power if they decide it is necessary into reality.

There was also the creation of black-dominated states by Radical Republicans around the River Missississippi and the so-called Black Belt to ensure the creation of 12 Republican-Party-loyal black Senators right in the middle of the American southeast, thus breaking the dominance of the US Democratic Party in Dixieland. After all, by creating whole US states that is entirely black dominated around the American Black Belt, the Radical Republicans not only allowed the black southerners political freedom from white dominant rule and representation from government, but the US Republican Party also got 12 loyal Republican Party members in the South (since we all know black people aren't mostly going to join the Democratic Party immediately after Emancipation).

Black Belt state creations such as Tombigbee, Magnolia, Lincoln and the like ensured 12 Republican Party Senators right out of the US South from the start who will never ever going to join the Democratic Party in the immediate generations after the Confederate Uprising (since again, black people aren't going to vote Democratic in the immediate generations after the war).

With Black Belt state creations, the political viability for Democrats to gain a majority in government or even the Presidency became so limited and so restricted since it only managed to gain popularity in the non-Black-Belt (dubbed the White-Belt) southern states. Outside of that and you only got like Kentucky and occassionally Missouri on the Democrat's side since most northerners began to go away from the Democratic Party ever since the assassinations of 1865
 
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Just found out one of the ways the military government wasted up obscene amount of money. Three separate members of the government ordered ironclads to be named the USS Abraham Lincoln. They didn’t tell anyone else in the government and when all of the ships launched around the same time they engaged in A massive lawsuit that went to the supreme court to determine which Shepard should be named after President Lincoln.
 
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