Of course, a black woman there whispered "haters" and "raaaycis."
Even my wife was ticked off.
Posted on 05/08/2016 9:43:34 PM PDT by Theoria
On a stage festooned with Confederate flags, a singer was belting out “Dixieland Delight” by Alabama near an obelisk honoring the Americans who fled to this outpost in the aftermath of the Civil War.
“We’re not racists,” said Cícero Carr, 54, an engineer whose great-great-grandfather hailed from Texas. Wearing a fedora featuring the rebel battle flag, he explained in Portuguese, “We’re just revering our ancestors who had the good sense to settle in Brazil.”
At the annual celebration of Brazil’s self-described Confederados one scorching Sunday in April, Confederate flags adorned the hoop-skirted gowns of young belles and the trucker caps worn by beer-guzzling bikers, as well as the graves of pioneers with surnames like McAlpine, Northrup and Seawright.
The commemoration reflected the resilience of what some historians call the lost colony of the Confederacy in this region of sugar cane fields and textile factories. Unencumbered by the debate raging in the United States over whether Confederate symbols promote racism, the Brazilian descendants of the American settlers, many of them clad in Civil War uniforms, mingled at food stands offering Southern fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits.
The motto of the organizers: To Live and Die in Dixie.
The presence of the Confederados in the interior of São Paulo State dates to an effort by Emperor Dom Pedro II, a staunch ally of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, to lure white immigrants to Brazil. Thousands of Southerners took him up on his offer, moving here in the 1860s and 1870s.
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Of course, a black woman there whispered "haters" and "raaaycis."
Even my wife was ticked off.
I see them occasionally in rural Minnesota, in yards and on pickup trucks!
***than those who went to Mexico to fight for Maximilian.***
I’ve read that in the movie THE SEARCHERS, when Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns to his brother’s Texas home, he gives Debbie his metal which is a French medal awarded by Maximilian for service in Mexico.
So long as she whispered she's within her rights. Though why one so disposed would be hanging out at such a place is a puzzle, unless just displaying her "gibsmedat" mindset.
If you're ever in Greenville, SC, check out this place by all means.
South Carolina Museum and Library of Confederate history
Just their firearms collection is amazing.
The Confederates who went to Brazil did not have it easy--it was at least as hard as homesteading in the American West and many endured years of poverty to begin with. If they thought they could recreate the planter life some of them had experienced before the war, they were badly mistaken. Slavery still existed in Brazil at that time but the immigrants did not have the money to buy slaves.
Some of the Confederate descendants there are of mixed race, but still maintain an interest in their ancestors' story.
Of course, the whole John Wayne/Rock Hudson movie “The Undefeated” is about Confederate troops fleeing into Mexico and fighting with Maximilian.
My family has traced back to soldiers fighting on both sides, during the Civil War, so my interest lies in seeing that the rich history of the South is not diminished, due to some PC hurt feelings. I’m totally fed up with revisionist history, and urge my grandchildren to read real books about the war.
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