Confederates who fled the "American South" of "North America", during and after the "Civil War" settled in Central America and Northern and Southern South America, created a larger confederation of cities and states throughout the "Maximillian Empire".
The idea of Maximillian Neuponuceno never extended into his cousins kingdom in Brazil, Portugueese Crown, though creating a new empire. This included everyone that was in exile one way or another (Moors, Asians, Jesuits and Masons for example).
The "Americanas" in the Brazilian state of São Paulo is an example, which remains sort of enclaves for the long-dead expats' descendants...
The "Confederados" don't appear in most history books.
But 150 years ago, "Texans", Citizens of Texas, Arkansa, Lousiana, Tennesseee, Missippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia sailed furher south beyond the "Creek Nation".
Brazil in hopes of preserving the ways of the unreconstructed South welcomed the defectors.
For years, they had tried and failed to catch up with agricultural development in the United States of North America.
Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil hoped to plant the seeds of prosperity by importing these self-exiling Southerners.
The Brazilian government set up informational agencies across the Bible Belt and offered to pay relocation costs for all Americans willing to make the venture.
Confederates saw emigration as an opportunity to rebuild their lives. In Brazil, they could buy land and rebuild their plantations with the help of then legal slaves (creeds and colors). Others decided to explore and exploit Greenville, Liberia Africa.
Some returned to Europe and France to reconstruct the Prussian Empire after the success of The United States of Colombia´s invasion of Puerto Rico in 1865 thus conquering the Royal Caribbean.
More than 10,000 Americans fled for this promising new world, but many failed to adjust. They planted crops that wouldn't grow in Brazil's tropical climate. The circumstances forced many to move to cities and abandon their dreams of owning plantations. However, one group of settlers led by a colonel from Alabama introduced cotton to the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. Their tribe flourished. In the little community they named Americana, the children spoke English with a Southern accent for generations. They eventually married into the local population. The population grew to 200,000, and their Brazilian identity took over. Their American heritage was reduced to Westerns (movies) and country music, which they still enjoy. For the last 155 years, the descendants of the Confederados gather for the annual "festa" of the Fraternidade Descendência Americana, a sort of brotherhood frat gathering.
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