Celebrating the US Civil war

[LibraryLady]

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/04/28/american-civil-war-commemorated-way-down-south-of-dixie.html?ESRC=eb.nl

Surprising story

[grouchy]

I really like that.

[Red Oak]

The Confederados, I wonder how many I am related to.

[Kiamichi]

There has been quite a bit of notice of this expatriate community over the years. I believe it was in the sixties that they were first filmed, and at that time some of the old people still spoke southern English. They were welcomed by the Brazilians because they were knowledgeable about cotton farming and Brazil had started raising it because of the Civil War blockade. Apparently none of the expatriates ever owned slaves despite the fact that slavery continued in Brazil for another twenty years after the Civil War.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... dos+brazil

[jellowrestling]

I had never heard of this (and I taught history). Sent it to a really good history teacher (also from the South), and she had never heard about it either.
Very interesting!

[Kiamichi]

Rosalynn Carter's great-uncle was one of the Confederate emigrants and she visited the town that is the modern center of the community. This article from 1979 recounts a reporter's visit during the Reagan-Carter campaign and tries to reproduce the sound of the southern English still spoken by some of the old people at that time (you can find old video of them speaking in various places). I find this interesting because I look in on various British international and expat forums and I have seen some of their goofier posters assert that at the time of the Civil War speech in the South was indistinguishable from British English and that the southern accent arose after the war as a way for resentful rebels to display their differentness from the rest of the country. The town of Americana is considered the center of the expat community but apparently many other southerners settled in widely scattered places but still retain some sense of ethnic identity.

http://narrative.ly/stories/brazils-sec ... spitality/

http://blog.eogn.com/2014/11/05/the-con ... to-brazil/

[Red Oak]

Something similar will happen again; I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut that some of my Grand Children, and most certainly my unborn Great-Grand Children will relocate to a foreign country to avoid persecution.