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May 11, 2015 01:15 pm PDT

Brazilians who keep alive the accents of Civil-War-era USsoutherners

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After the American Civil War, a group of Southerners left for Brazil -- where the "Confederados" remained so culturally separate from the rest of Brazilians that to this day their ancestors speak in the cadences of South Georgia: A linguistic time capsule "preserved in aspic". Read the rest


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