Here is something I quickly threw together this afternoon. Make use of it as you will.
Democrats: The party of the Revolution, the Democrats are a relatively generic conservative political party. Based in Virginia, it’s the party of the status quo. While it wishes to preserve the structural integrity of the confederacy, the institution of slavery, and the memory of the revolution it stands for little else. Its membership is composed of the rich and middleclass, with upstart textile manufacturers beginning to depose the planter old guard from the ranks of its leadership. With the collapse of the cotton boom its traditional political dominance is being threatened.
Whigs: A more conservative counterpart of the Democrats, the Whigs take the Confederacy literally. They are a party of state’s rights and entrenched money. They advocate the expansion slavery, possibly through foreign adventurism, non-existent tariffs, mandatory service in the state militia, and the promotion of “traditional southern values”. The Whigs are most popular in South Carolina, and the Deep South.
Sons of the South: The Sons of the South are a minor confederate political party. The Sons of the South are disgusted with the old guard political parties, who they see as corrupt and ineffective. It seeks to both modernize and centralize confederate government, noting how far the confederacy has fallen behind the north in recent years. Inorder to go about this, they seek massive state subsidies towards industrialization, the replacement of slavery with a harsh apartheid like system, and military expansion and modernization. For all of its revolutionary talk, the Sons of the South are rather anti-democratic wanting further restrictions on sufferage, and the abolishment of lower level state houses. The Sons of the South’s membership is concentrated in the affluent youth, the military, and most importantly the officer corps.
Jeffersonian: The Jeffersonian Party is an extremely minor party within southern politics. Its largely urban in nature and it’s a coalition of liberal and progressives. The Jeffersonians seek rapprochement with the north, prohibition, government subsidies for education, infrastructure, and industrialization, and compensated emancipation. Despite this, they still view blacks as second class citizens and advocate strigenent restrictions on black movement and communication.
Corn and Coal: The Corn and Coal party is a relatively minor confederate political party. Its politics are populist, with its membership being made up of the rural working poor. It seeks to enact dramatic political reforms in order to affirm universal white male suffrage, remove the entrenched political dynasties from both state and national government, and to establish social programs to alleviate white poverty. Economically, Corn and Coal is for the nationalization of rail and infrastructure, the establishment of an income tax, restrictions on immigration (what little the confederacy receives) and sweeping bans on the use slave labor for industrial activities. The Corn and Coal party is strongest in North Carolina and Appalachia. While not outright banned, both the Whigs and Democrats work to intimidate its leadership and keep Corn and Coal candidates off the ballet.
CCC: The Coalition of Confederated Communists is a political party which has officially been banned by the Confederate government. Its aims are the abolishment of slavery, full rights for all confederate blacks, the nationalization of land, infrastructure, and industry, as well as the overthrow of the Confederate government in order to facilitate the advance of global socialism. The CCC is based out of Chicago, where its largely black central committee seeks to radicalize southern blacks and establish networks of cells, spies, and safe houses throughout the confederacy. The American government turns a blind eye towards the CCC’s activities, as it both undermines their enemy and focus the fervor of domestic communists elsewhere.