[Pelham]

There were no political parties in the Confederacy. Their elected officials were a mix of Democrats and former Cotton Whigs.

[BroJoeK]

Pelham: "There were no political parties in the Confederacy.
Their elected officials were a mix of Democrats and former Cotton Whigs."

CSA VP Alexander Stephens, famous for his Cornerstone Speech, was typical of Southern politicians of the day:

1. Whig Party from 1836 to 1851

2. Unionist Party from 1851 to 1860
   "By this time [1851], Stephens had departed the ranks of the Whig party, its Northern wing generally not amenable to some Southern interests.
   Back in Georgia, Stephens, [Robert] Toombs, and Democratic Representative Howell Cobb formed the Constitutional Union Party...

   "Despite his late arrival in the Democratic Party [1854], Stephens quickly rose through the ranks.
   He even served as President James Buchanan's floor manager in the House during the fruitless battle for the slave state Lecompton Constitution for Kansas Territory in 1857.
   He was instrumental in framing the failed English Bill after it became clear that Lecompton would not pass, in order to negotiate its approval."

3. Constitutional Union from 1860 to 1861

4. Democrat from 1861 until his death in 1882.

Stephens was effectively a Democrat from 1852 on and continued as a Democrat after the war.

The US Civil War was Democrats waging war against the United States, a war which Democrats continue to this day.