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Alfred F. Jones
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« on: December 03, 2015, 03:34:19 PM » |
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« edited: December 03, 2015, 07:24:11 PM by Solidarity Forever »
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I'm cooking up some ideas for a New England secession/Burr Conspiracy double whammy TL, and I was wondering what the political parties would be in the separated two - I've sketched it out until about the 20s/30s for the US and the 40s for NE, but I'm not quite sure how to go on as we diverge further from OTL.
In the US, so far we've got the National Party and the Democratic Party, which are the same as the NatReps/Whigs and Dems OTL, although obviously the Dems are a lot stronger. I'm thinking there might be cracks appearing in the Democratic coalition soon, especially with the Nullification Crisis and the effects of a much more Southern nation on it, but that's about as far as I've gotten. I'm definitely imagining a Manifest Destiny type thing in the Caribbean, what with the Ostend Manifesto and the Slave Power and all that, so maybe that could play into the party systems?
I've actually gone quite a bit further in New England than the US, with mostly Federalist dominance (in a sort of Massachusetts Dynasty for the first eighteen years) until the rise of the Anti-Masonic Party as a credible second party and its later merger with the People's Party (the Dorr Rebellion plays a big role ITTL, pretty much developing into a full-blown civil war). The Federalists are your typical Federalists, adapted to the modern day (modern, of course, meaning the 1830s), where as the Anti-Masons/Populists are a more populist (of course), Jacksonian Democracy type of party (although not necessarily economically - I'll have to look into that more). Slavery obviously wouldn't be an issue, and they are very close to Great Britain both economically and politically, so perhaps that would play a role? Maybe the Know-Nothings could be a significant third party?
Thoughts?
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