A half-million Brazilians want to break away and form a new country

washington post ^ | October 5, 2016 | Dom Phillips

[TexasTransplant]

Good luck with that ... normally requires Firearms ... those folks at the top DO NOT CARE if you Live or Die ... It is where you live that they must control.
Ropes and Lamp Posts maybe

[Paladin2]

Apparently knot.

[Laser_Ray]

Good luck, you’re dirt poor and have no 2nd Amendment and your options for acquiring arms and ammo are a lot less even if your income was equal. Not to mention this is a region of the world where threats of revolution are taken very seriously by the reigning tinpots, unlike in America where you can daily commit treason on main street.

[ifinnegan]

This would be great.

There’s about 30 million people in Southern Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Region,_Brazil

[wastoute]

Now, I grew up out that way, real close to Tejas. The reason you got the pointy toe on the boot is for the cucarachas.

[ReaganGeneration2]

No, Lincoln decided in 1860 that secession is evil. No country shall divide peacefully. It’s acceptable for Brazil to send in more troops and start killing.

/s

[kearnyirish2]

That’s right; the Civil War ended 150 years ago but they don’t want to look any further in determining why many black adults can barely read.

[kearnyirish2]

Latin American countries, much like the US, were forged by Europeans determined to break free of the yoke of European monarchies. Each has declined as the indigenous people return them to where they were before Columbus sailed; here in the US it is the descendants of slaves and our (in some cases native) Hispanic population doing that...

[dljordan]

White people wanting their own country.

[Right Wing Assault]

They could call it "New Rhode Island."

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Actually they could call it Americana. Below is the original city flag of Americana, SP, Brasil. The banner of the Brazilian Confederados.

[Katya]

I’d add...the further North you go in Brazil the poorer the residents are.

[blam]

"The south of Brazil has three states with a heavy majority of Brazilians of European background. As such, it is more like Argentina or Chile. Overall, Brazil now has a majority of people of African heritage with heavy concentrations of this ethnicity in the North of the country. The understated reason behind the “secession” movement in southern Brazil is race which is a much bigger factor in the country’s politics and social situation than most Brazilians will admit."

There are 100 million 'self-identified' Black people in Brazil. This is more than any country outside of Africa.

I've read articles about compounds of 30,000 people (mostly White) with a high wall and their own security force of 1,200.
Visitors must submit to searches entering and leaving the compound.