Starlifter
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Fascinating stuff. I hadn't known of this interesting facet of the American civil war era.
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Many Southerners had lost their land during the war, or were unwilling to live under a conquering army. Between 1865 and 1885, almost ten thousand White American confederates ran ashore in the ports of Belém, Vitória, Rio de Janeiro and Santos. Once they arrived, they had to redouble their so weakened energies and confront other faraway and tough trips around the land until they could reach the region of Campinas, whose climate and lands are similar to those of the Southern United States. It is unknown just how many immigrants went to Brazil as refugees from the war, but unpublished research in the records of the port of Rio de Janeiro by Betty Antunes de Oliveira counts some 20,000 Americans that entered Brazil from 1865 to 1885.
Time for a second round of southern yahoos, redneck racists, crackers, and other America haters to emigrate eh? My not a very nice person neighbor has been flying his American flag upside down along with his "Don't Tread On Me" teabagger flag since the election. I would buy him a one-way ticket in a heartbeat.
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