Party formation/dissolution needs to be looked at
In my current game as the USA, the Whigs just kill themselves on June 8, 1848 when the Constitutional Union Party shows up. The industrialists leave to join it, and the Whigs are suddenly the farmers in the opposition. Everyone who was getting along fine with the industrialists now wants to get out, leaving my government at 0 legitimacy. At least wait until the election is over to fuck me so I can fix this nonsense with the free government reform. No leaders died, the script just says the parties change on that date so they do. This needs to be improved.
Posted Dec 3, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC
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This is historical. If you notice the Missouri Compromise effect and the Party Attraction breakdown you'll see that Abolitionism and American Two Party System are supergluing Intelligentsia and Evangelicals together in the Whig Party.
What happened in this timeframe was that the Whig party split along regional lines as a backfire from the Compromise of 1850. Northern whigs formed the Free Soil party and then merged with the Republican Party in time to run Fremont in the 1856 election. Southern whigs formed the Constitutional Union Party. Whigs who were ambivalent about slavery but refused to become democrats sometimes joined the Native American Party (Know Nothings) who were, in game terms, National Supremacists and State Religion who also wanted Migration Controls.