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Brazil's long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  • Written by Jordan Brasher, Doctoral candidate in Geography, University of Tennessee
Visitors and performers at Brazil's 'Confederate Party,' held each April in São Paulo state.Jordan Brasher, Author provided

The aroma of fried chicken and biscuits roused my appetite as the country sounds of Alison Krauss, Alan Jackson and Johnny Cash played over the loudspeakers.

This might have been a county fair back home in Tennessee, but...

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