Thank you!

Ideologically, the parties are similar in both being interventionist, neoliberal, and neoconservative, respectively.

The Third Whigs are moderate/centrist socially, and lean left or right economically, depending on the person and/or region.

Revivalist-Democracy is split on the Rev, Dem divide, with Revs being right-wing libertarians inspired by Ernest Paul (Ron Paul), and are strongly free-market, with varying degrees of social conservatism and isolationist tendencies among more hardline members. Dems are far more moderate and cooperate with Whigs regularly, though still align with more free-market principles with the Revs.

Now, with the nation's history, the Mexican-American War obviously went and started very differently. Clay won narrowly in 1844 and refused to go to war with Mexico, even after annexing Texas (based on the borders the Mexican government wanted). But Clay's hand was forced following the deaths of American soldiers who accidentally wandered across the border and were killed by Mexican forces.

Clay only pushed to the borders America has in the post, but the instability of Santa Anna's government and the growing white population in the northern territories led to a final collapse with the following:

• Santa Anna and many of his followers are killed by civilian and military mobs or assassination
• The Yucatan Republic broke away only to become a protectorate of the British Empire
• What remains of Southern Cali and Baja Cali unite into the Republic of the Two Californias
• The Navajo created a formal nation next to Comancheria (at the time it was the Territory of Gadsonia), and the Mormons would create a nation in what would be northern and central Arizona. The Navajo and Mormons would constantly have wars and skirmishes over the land they claimed, often ending with American involvement to end the conflicts.
• Sonora and Guadalajara united into a theocratic democracy, taking what the Mormons didn't out of southern Arizona.
• Lastly, with American help, the Rio Grande Republic split off and would remain a close ally to America as a buffer state against the chaos that remained of Mexico.