The last Remnants of the Confederacy in South America? (Confederados of Brazil) 

If I recall correctly, When Jimmy Carter visited Brazil during his tenure as president, he was surprised to see Brazilian children speaking with southern accents. And asked if they were just putting on a show

Damn, I live in São Paulo, heard of Americana a lot of times, but never thought it was populated by thousands of confederated descendants.

We are nearly 80.000 American Descendants here in Brazil, including myself. My great great grandfather Henry Farrar Steagall fought in American Civil War under General "Stonewall Jackson´s" command. We stil having some Silver dollars in our possession as remembrances of that migration!

Rita Lee, famous brazilian rockstar, is a descendent of confederates. She is named after General Lee.

People forget that Brazil had a higher slave trade than America

It's quite hard to tell if a Brazilian has American/English ancestry, almost all of them changed their surnames to integrate to the society. Like, if their surname was "White" they would have translated to "Branco".

Tabasco is a state in México some confederate veteran went there after the Civil War and braught back a recipe for a hot sauce that is why the most famous Louisiana hot sauce has a Mexican name but it's made from peppers from French Guyana.

This is fascinating. I would have never known this in 1,000,000 years. Great video.

The city of Americana is on 100 best cities in the Brazil to living with high human development index, comparable to Canada, and low homicide rates, less than US.

Dude, wtf? The first image of the modern city of Americana is a slum?? I've been there and it is not like that. It is a quite nice city!

Make brazil great again.

Why does a video supposedly about Confederates in Brazil spend most of it's time talking about everything except Confederates in Brazil?

Wow thanks! I never knew about this! That would be a funny argument in America. We fly the confederate flag to celebrate a Brazilian city!

I´m a brazilian, and i tell u: yhe brazilian confederdos are a fine bunch, super cool and in no way racists. Please, leave them alone: we got english speak and batispt church from them. No one talks about white suprecism over here, it would be insane.

Future Video suggestions : 1.Afro-Caribbeans in Central America ( Panama , Honduras , Costa Rica and Guatemala. 2.The Ryukuans Kingdom /Okinawan prefecture of Japan. 3.Polynesians, Micronesian, and Melanasians of the South Pacific islands. 4.The island Country of Sri Lanka. 5.The Tanzanian territory Zanzibar.

I am brazilian white ( Áustrian + italian) About 50,000 Confederates migrated to Brazil in the American Civil War These people are just remembering their ancestors just want to keep a tradition, it is not a crime

each video of yours is like a treasure box, wherever you find them! Thanks Enjoyed this one very much.

Glad you brought this unique topic! Having lived in Brazil for many years, I can add the following: 1- The regional "CAIPIRA" accent in São Paulo, Brazil, was heavily influenced by the "Americanas". Especially the way the "R" is pronounced, it's the same as the "R" in American English. 2- Many Brazilians adopted English last names as first names. Such as Edison, Edilson, Wilson, etc. Some soccer players have those names. 3- These Americanas were fully integrated into Brazilian society and today the heritage is lost. Even people living in the city of Americana have no idea about the past.

That was real interesting!! I never knew that part of history👍🏾

What a well done survey, with a very good setup, thanks for sharing! I faced decades of fun at school, when in newsrooms we had to address themes of "immigrants" and as I am, let's say, a "Confederate", I used to write about the immigration of South Americans but my teachers said that this never really existed and my apologies on my rude English here... Every foreign visitor I know or receive and eventually the conversations address the Brazilian formation, I always tell about the founding of the city of Santa Bárbara do Oeste and then the "Villa Americana" which was how the locals referred to the southern farmers who cultivated and they introduced new items in Brazil, such as the Spinning Wheel, the Cotton, the Watermelon, the Portable Oil Lamp and the Double Plows, which do not exist here or are too rudimentary. Not by chance, in a few decades, Americana would have one of the largest fabric manufacturing parks in an advanced pioneer industrial nucleus, thanks to the cotton culture and its processing, where the coat of arms clearly shows both a Spinning Wheel and... the Rebel Flag! From "A" to "Z", through the Ashees, Bucchanans, Carringtons, Demarets, Emmets, Fletchers, Gottschalks, Hawthornes, Issacs, Jones, Kennerlys, Lees, McIntyres, Norris, Owens, Platts, Quillens, Ransoms, Steagalls (I am one...), Townsends, Vaughns, Whitakers, and Yanceis in total emigrated from the CSAs exactly 327 families. They were dispersed in 6 initial colonizing nuclei, such as in SANTARÉM in the middle of the very very far Amazonian Jungle , RIO DOCE seashore in Espírito Santo state and the largest and richest Brazilian state, SÃO PAULO, concentrating farmers in the cities of JUQUIÁ, NOVA TEXAS, XURITICA which did not prosper due to the inhospitable climate and the well-known SANTA BÁRBARA and VILLA AMERICANA. One thing that the 390 Million US citizens NEED to incorporate as soon as possible is that Brazilians are mostly descended as national ethos is that we have nothing and some of the Spanish, adding to the unique fact that we are a 100% speaking continental country in Portuguese, that is, we come from a totally different people, the Portuguese. As for the "racial problem" in Brazilian realities, it is an essentially North American characteristic, in fact, natives here asked what was the "racial problem" that the newcomers talked about, including a Confederate´s' Daughter married a Brazilian black farmer and with the exception of the newcomers, nobody found anything or anything strange about this. Brazil is indeed the most perfect world integration between 7 or 8 different races and hosts the 3rd major japanese imigirants on the world and we have a gigantic Caucasian population, the kind of aspect that surprises foreigners even today, of course, because our sportsmen are mostly black and these images run around the world, giving a false impression sampling of reality. There are racists in Brazil but trust me, there are even black people who are racist with black people, I myself met social groups like that and if it were possible, going back to the theme of the title of this material, a specific research on the Brazilian Confederates would bring light and information to this aspect of the "Lost Colony of the Confederacy. Not at all "lost" because in reality, their success here was absolute, integrating themselves perfectly into the Brazilian society that welcomed them 100%, at all levels of knowledge, occupations, religions, works, marriages, children and diffuse prosperity . The 14th Confederate Star rises, is still shinning high and is Brazilian in everything. And for everyone.

Fascinating video. I had no idea these things happened. Thanks.

This is one of the strangest things I've ever heard in my life! Brown people waving the Rebel flag? A gigantic confederate flag dance floor? IN BRAZIL? A town in Brazil founded by Confederates? You think you've seen it all. Nope!

As a Americana citizen myself, I also want to add that it was at Villa Carioba, where the maire house, a working village and a dam, it's the location of the first asphalt pavement road in Brasil. I never understood the confederados, which btw are located at the "american cemetary" in another neighbour city called santa barbara d'oeste, and also never achieved none of the celebrations, but I know it's a vibe and really family friendly. Like real honest fun. But I have doubts if they know this much that you know, Masaman, for example. But that's definitely something that I never heard about my own city and thanks for that!! Definitely sharing to the doom town friends survivors

Neat because I recently discovered this topic of confederates that fled to brazil

This is a very well put together video. Informative and objective.

Great video, these things are simply not taught in school. I recommend making a video on the potential economically and militarily speaking on a United Latin America!

Man I love your channel, you always bring something new to the table.

"Rise again...i mean I'll see you next time.".. Hahahaha very funny , great video thanks

Thank you my Brazilian brothers and sisters

I'm a history teacher from Brazil, never hear of this, thank for the info!

Absolute fiyah! I love it! Good research my dude

Union: “Your going to brasil!” CSA: “Ok”

Already visited Americana to their "Festa Confederada" once when I was a child, it was hella fun

"2 and a half 9/11's happening every day" What an odd why of explaining things

And *that's* why I subscribed to your channel, Mason, for awesome stuff like this nobody else seems to remember or care about. Great job, as usual and the sun will rise... in the East, as usual, I guess.

--Hey Masaman, very nice quality video. Could you also make a video explaining the intriguing history and ethno-linguistical history of the Eastern Romance languages? Those are: (Daco)Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-romanian, Megleno-romanian and Dalmatian. That would very interesting and mind clearing :D

Yayyyy my country

Will you do a video about the genetic legacy of the Roman Empire? Please!

I love this channe, it gave a lot of awnsers but could you pleas do a video on Great zimbabwe, before the european times.

Fascinating video! May I suggest you do something with the 19th century Afrikaner diaspora in Argentina? There is a documentary movie on it called "The Boers at the end of the world".

We wuz confederates and shiet

Does anyone have any recordings of confederados descendants from the 1960s, 1970s and/or 1980s?

Crazy sounding humming in the background, great video either way

@Masaman. That computer fan in the background in this & other videos. Good content, just check the background noises when you record.

We wuz south american and shiet

Is this like how the last renaments of nazi germany is in Argentina? Also can you do the celts?

Thank you for this bit of history man I love learning new things

CSA: Deep South Brazil: Deeper South

You should make a vídeo about the ethnic history of Brazil

They left South America and went to South America

What a good piece! Keep them coming!

Good job. True and fair depiction of history there. (Louisianaman)

Americans will measure with anything except the metric system. Imperial, football fields, Olympic swimming pools... 9/11s...

I've been wondering when Mason would cover this topic. I found out that some of my distant relatives moved to Americana and it's fascinating to see the Confederate flag among people who are removed from its history.

What's the noise in the background? Is there a storm going on? I went over to the window twice to check the weather before I realised it was from the video.

Damn good video and explanation brother!

Interesting video! I had no idea that Confederates had fled to Brazil after the Civil War. (It makes sense considering the fact that Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.) I actually learned something I hadn't heard about. I love your channel! All your videos are fascinating and informative.

And its in south America in south Brazil you can't get any more southern than that

That was interesting I did not know that thanks for sharing that.

Wow, I didn't know about this. Thank you.

Make a video about the Romanians, a island of Latinity in a slavic sea

I'm Brazilian and this region of Americana which is in the country side the people have a curious accent. The "R" is kind of similar to the American English which give them a unique culture and language.

Hey can you make a video on Kashmir and or Siberia. Thank you love you're videos keep up the good work

This channel never ceases to amaze me.

I'd like to see one on Finns/Estonians/Hungarians relations to Asia and Europe.

That is very interesting, informative & fascinating to learn & know that there is a place in South America that keeps the Confederate history alive.

Another gem. Well done

WE WAZ CONFEDIRATES AN SHIET!

Rita Lee (known as the Brazilian Cher) speaks with English without accent because she was raised at a confederado home. Because of that American who wanted to rule a country in Mexico, Americans aren't allowed to buy land or houses close to the border or on the ocean... or the might try to cause trouble and have the marines come over and take over a small city as part of the U.S.A.

Great technical route mapping of the movement of people, also if i am request, if u have anything on how and where the southern confederates originally came from, what made them a society, to their make up of today. Thanks

Years ago I saw a documentary about Confederate descendants that I thought lived in Argentina & were called Confederalies. Done Google searches since then & never found anything. This must have been what it was talking about. Any way, thank you very much for this video.

Just to correct, the city is not Americana, it's Santa Bárbara d'Oeste

Fabulous!

It is a mind blowing fact! Congrats for your effort mainly to proof that evil can be transformed. AMAZING!

Exellent work

I'm sorry to correct you but the way you phrased your description of Dom Pedro sounded like he was a slaver. And I'm sure you know that the only reason Brazil still had slavery into the 19th century was the republican oligarchs. As a matter of fact the Imperial family had since the very estabilishment of a Brazilian nation the will to free slaves. Remniscents of that can be read in the Constitution of 1824 which effectively banned any kind of physical violence towards slaves. That, for the time, was impressive.

That was really informative, and I thank you. I'd known about the Confederados in an off-hand way, but your historical background is impressive.

Can you please make a Video on the Tsakonians? They're the Indigenous Inhabitants of most of the Peloponnesian Region in Southern Greece who were quite distinct from the Athenian/Atticans (Where the standard Greek Language comes from) also being the modern Descendants of Spartans, Corinthians, Myceneans, Arcadians, etc.

"Americana" is a small town located in the State of São Paulo - a one-and-a-half hour drive from where I'm based An even smaller neighbouring town is called "Santa Barbara"

Some Confederate defenders still say slavery was only a minor part for secession or for Civil War but what is their defense for parts of the South wanting to expand slavery to other countries?

Prussian Chile AND Confederate Brazil? South America is a hell of a place. It's like the Imperial Guard of 40k.

that "president of 3 countries" guy must be a LEGEND

Brazil is so big and diversified. I'm Brazilian and I had no idea about any of that.

I remember discovering this on wikipedia a year ago an was amazed that such a thing existed. (Just like the Welsh of Argentina) While the use of the Confederate flag is still debatable, it's good to see it painted in a more positive light.

Great history! Fascinating. Would be worth a visit on a trip to Brazil.

I think the term surreal was invented for situations like this. i can't imagine what my reaction would be if I had happen upon this place while exploring Brazil and did not know of it's existence beforehand.

How interesting, howd you even find out about this place?

Living traditions confederate Américan Brazilian.

I'm brazilian and I'm quite shocked to find out that we have confederates down to brazil , awesome video , I've learned a lot

why did you delete your old videos?

Interesting take on the war and Reconstruction. You make some very good, while some of your conclusions are a bit thin.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.

3:58 I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Mason. The CSA had superior military leaders and soldiers, the Union- albeit having competent generals as well- won through an industrial economy and sheer force.

Can you do a video about Latino's in europe and are there dutch people with spanisch ancestors because of the war with spain

Very interesting!

My uncle lives in Americana now!

Holy crap I just thought of a great tactic southerners can you use to support their southern heritage: bring up the confederatos in Brazil!

Why are all the flags confederate battle flags and not the actual ones?

It'd be amazing if you speak about mexican confederados!, explained in the book "vaqueros in blue and gray", describing the 15,000 mexicans fighting for the south in gray uniforms!

They are good people, they are just celebrating the stories of their ancestors and the foundation of the colony! They have nothing to do with racism! They only celebrate, culture, history, music, food and etc.