[rockrr]

Now, 150 years later, their story has been seemingly erased from the history books.

I doubt that anyone is "erasing" anything, but it is fading away as most things do. Entropy is a bitch.

[ichabod1]

Like the descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island.

[sagar]

Didn’t a bunch of Nazis also flee to Brazil?

[x]

I doubt that anyone is "erasing" anything, but it is fading away as most things do.

True. People down there know where they came from, but apart from the tourist business, it's a little like Dutch or the Huguenots or the Scots in New York or South Carolina or North Carolina. Not exactly like that because it happened more recently, but they're Brazilians and they aren't looking to restore the Confederacy.

[lavaroise]

The real French after Algeria left for Sourh America too. Soon we will see a mass exodus of French right winger to Brazile when it becomes a Franco-German caliphate subcivilization as ahitler dreamed it...

[Bob]

I have to disagree — Aren’t Confederate memorials and statues being torn down in New Orleans and elsewhere in the South? Aren’t some schools renaming buildings which were long named for former slave owners?

To me, those acts and many more, are part of erasing “uncomfortable” (i.e. politically incorrect) aspects of US history.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Make no mistake about it, they are trying to erase that from the history of America.
Statues are being removed, flags are being banned.