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What are everyone's thoughts on the domestic politics of the USA and CSA in a TL where a Peace Democrat becomes president and ends the war?

First is the issue of who gets blamed for what in the North. Are the Republicans to blame because they are viewed as precipitating a civil war they failed to win? Are the copperheads traitors and the Peace Democrats fools for giving up part of the country they could have retained? Is the attitude good riddance to the South?

How damaged are the Democrats electorally without the Solid South? Where could they make up the difference? Are the USA and CSA dominated democracies by the Republicans and Democrats respectively until 1900? Are the US' Republicans even more dominated by OTL Radical Republicans and ACW military men? Is it even more corrupt?

How unpopular would blacks become in the North and would it translate into politics? Can the America Party make a comeback and displace one of the major parties in the US? Who will be the other party in the CSA and what name will they have: the Whigs? How strong will minor parties be, like a Texan Independence Party or South Carolina hardliner plantocracy party?

Will there be equivalents of OTL political movements and groupings like the Mugwumps, Bourbon Democrats, and Silverites? What would their party movements and affiliations end up being? What non-OTL movements can you see popping up in the US and South in this TL?

Will the Populists aim to force an alliance with Upper Midwest blue collar workers since the option of expanding into the rural South won't be open to them? Could/would they ditch silver to appeal to them? Could this start a western party which rolls the Populist, Progressive, Farmer-Labour, and Nonpartisan League into one movement/party? Can they replace one of the major parties in the US?
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