Monday, April 27, 2015

Festa dos Confederados: Brazil celebrates 150th anniversary of Civil War's end

Via Billy


It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags emblazoning everything from belt buckles to motorcycle vests to trucker caps.

But Sunday's party marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War took place about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) south of the South, in a rural Brazilian town colonized by families fleeing Reconstruction.

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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 27, 2015 at 6:55 PM

    It is Confederate Memorial Day today in FL, GA, AL & MS. Good day for the post.
    Terry
    Fla.

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  2. BillApril 27, 2015 at 6:58 PM

    Viva la Confederacy.

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  3. Brock TownsendApril 27, 2015 at 7:00 PM

    Yes, NC is May 10th.

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  4. AnonymousApril 28, 2015 at 11:41 PM

    Great pics. I wish the Southerner would get over feeling shamed because that's
    the agenda.... A very short report on the trashing of a Confederate monument in
    Augusta, Georgia: (the shortest report I've ever read)
    http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/latest/lat_703168.shtml

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    1. Brock TownsendApril 28, 2015 at 11:54 PM

      Really and hate away, it will be returned 10 fold.

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  5. AnonymousApril 28, 2015 at 11:55 PM

    Never mind, that was in 2009. I saw April 28, 2015.

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  6. AnonymousApril 29, 2015 at 12:40 AM

    Too bad. Eventually it will be gone. It's like an article on Amren written by a
    Hispanic said, Whites are too cowardly to defend their own country.

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    1. Brock TownsendApril 29, 2015 at 12:46 AM

      We shall see, when it comes down to the nitty-gritty.

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