What would American political parties look like without Andrew Jackson?

The question of what if there was no Andrew Jackson has been asked a few times before, what many tend to focus on the banks or the trail of tears. What I'm curious about is what american parties would look like without him. Would we still have the federalist and Democratic-Republican parties?
 
The question of what if there was no Andrew Jackson has been asked a few times before, what many tend to focus on the banks or the trail of tears. What I'm curious about is what american parties would look like without him. Would we still have the federalist and Democratic-Republican parties?

The Federalist party was, for all intents and purposes, dead by the time of Andrew Jackson. The split between the Whigs and the Democrats that occurred during/after Jackson's term was purely a split within the Democratic party (between so-called National Republicans and the rest of the Democratic-Republicans).

Some kind of split would have still occurred, but what it would be would be difficult to predict. The divergent interests of the agrarians, the workingmen, the manufacturers, and a half dozen other major pressure groups in this time period would not live under a single party for long.
 
The Federalist party was, for all intents and purposes, dead by the time of Andrew Jackson. The split between the Whigs and the Democrats that occurred during/after Jackson's term was purely a split within the Democratic party (between so-called National Republicans and the rest of the Democratic-Republicans).

Some kind of split would have still occurred, but what it would be would be difficult to predict. The divergent interests of the agrarians, the workingmen, the manufacturers, and a half dozen other major pressure groups in this time period would not live under a single party for long.

Given that most ex-Federalists that remained politically engaged eventually glommed onto the NatRepubs and then the Whigs, I suspect that the general contours of the split would look much like OTL.
 
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