Confederate Flag Flies As Brazilians Celebrate Heritage With Dixie Festival



Thousands of Brazilians attended a celebration in Americana, Brazil, last Sunday for the “Festa Confederada,” the Confederate Festival. Most are descendants of the thousands of Confederates that left the United States after the end of the Civil War in the 1860s. Eager for educated white colonists, Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II advertised in newspapers across the Southern States offering free land to immigrants. In the aftermath of the Civil War, as many as 10,000 Americans took the offer, leaving behind postbellum Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

"I don't speak English and the only place I've been to in the U.S. is Disneyworld, but I feel the heritage," said Alcina Tanner Coltre, 77, whose great-great-grandparents migrated from Mississippi. "My great-grandfather married a Brazilian woman, so he integrated into Brazilian culture pretty quickly, but it's really important to me to come out every year to remember where we come from."

American tourists -- some from the South -- visited this year’s Festa Confederata on the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. They learned about how Confederates lived and died (many from tropical disease), 5,000 miles away from home, creating a hybrid culture. While slavery was legal in Brazil until 1888, decades after colonists arrived, historians say that few of the white immigrants would have held slaves because they were too poor. Instead of recreating a plantation culture, they intermarried with Brazilians of Portuguese, indigenous and even African descent.



Many visitors, Civil War buffs themselves, were impressed with the event’s costumes, dancing and decorations.

“It feels really authentic,” said Gwen Gray, a 69-year-old retiree originally from Greeneville, Tennessee, who came all the way from New Mexico.

Attendant danced to country music, waved Confederate flags and watched a performance of “Amazing Grace.” Many showed up in Civil-War-Era garb, even mixed race Afro-Brazilians.

"Imagine if I were to show up dressed like this in the middle of New York," he said. "I would get beaten! But not here. For us in Brazil, it has no political meaning at all," said 34-year-old João Leopoldo Padovese, dressed in a grey Confederate battle uniform.

Yea, I thought it was kinda weird but interesting.

They're just a bunch of racists, they fly the racist flag.

now THERE is a Target for ANTIFA!
Wonder if Papa Soros will finance the venture!

I think the globe has always been full of targets

it just hasn't impacted the right people enough for them to care.


another human condition, people tend to not care about other peoples problems and only see the problem when it impacts their life somehow.

yeah but it started to get polarized once again, it always starts like that, as individual incidents here and there, but these incidents are just the tip of the iceberg!

Well Six Flags has taken down all flags and replaced them with all American flags. Next we can take down the pyramids because they were built by slaves

I'm curious to know the current attitude of the Confederates (or those who support them ) right now about critical and sensitive issues like slavery, what do they think about the history of the USA, and what are their main goals and mottos nowadays?

There's new evidence that the pyramids were actually built with skilled Egyptian labor and not slaves.
The citizens would work the crops when the Nile permitted then switched to pyramid work when the Nile flooded.
It was considered a privilege to work on pharaoh's project who was, after all, seen as a god.
I tend to believe that. If I wanted a project like a gigantic pyramid made out of huge bricks that heigh several tons each done to perfection, I wouldn't rely on a bunch of slaves who had neither the interest nor the skills to make it happen.
We do not know exactly how the pyramids were built so how can we be sure they were built by slave hands?

Maybe but six flags was named that for a reason

I know, I can't believe the lunacy has gone as far as changing the flags at Six Flag.
I guess they'll have to print new money with NO face on it... OH, Trump's face on the 100's, lol, that ought give a few bleeding-heart libtards some knee-jerk reactions