Political Parties in the Confederate States of America

Protectionist? Protectionist how? The Southern economy was based on a free flow of exports and imports and Southern politicians had been opposed to tariffs for generations.
Simple. The Confederates are the bad guys, thus must be opposed to everything a good liberal today would support.

(That the Confederacy was a reactionary and illiberal regime is true, but quite beside the point).
 
Simple. The Confederates are the bad guys, thus must be opposed to everything a good liberal today would support.

(That the Confederacy was a reactionary and illiberal regime is true, but quite beside the point).

Even if most might be against it at the time, it doesn't mean they won't change their minds over time or the minority that wanted it pushes for it even if they don't get it or even more so the next generation won't want it. The South wasn't a monolithic bloc.
 
Nah, the war is going to be over in the 1860s so the labels will be there by the 1870s at the latest. It isn't going to take two generations to start labeling factions.
Labeling them, probably not. Factions actually having any formal organisation and accepting those labels... it's a larger step than you might think, and one of the main drivers for it is universal suffrage - something the CSA will not even have for white males IIRC. The Democrats had no real external competition and often fierce internal contests in the OTL South, yet I don't think there were real organised factions within them. The lack of a viable national opponent will accelerate the process, but it's not going to happen overnight. France didn't have real parties before about 1900 (before then it's mostly guesswork and back-projection) and the right only really started having them in the Fourth Republic.
The Presidential system may accelerate this, due to the single national candidacy, but governorships don't seem to have OTL on a state level, and it seems plausible you could get something probably more like the US system was intended to be, where the House decides between multiple candidates every six years.
 
I think the biggest, but not defining factional issue on a Confederal level early on might be foreign policy - pro-Britishness versus isolationism.
I'd expect the first organised party to likely be something along the lines of the South African Labour Party (if I've understood them right) - populist group of poor white workers, less pro-slavery (or segregation and lack of black voting rights in SA) than the establishment but wanting to avoid competition from blacks.
 
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