Brazil gets a taste of the Deep South as descendants of the 10,000 Confederates who fled the U.S. to South America after the Civil War hold annual festival

Hundreds of people gathered in the village of Santa Barbara d'Oeste near Sao Paulo in Brazil to honour Confederates who fled the US and went to South America at the end of the Civil War. 

Thousands attend the festival which is held at the American Cemetery, or Cemiterio dos Americanos, where graves of settlers and descendants remain to this day. The festival features traditional Southern-style dancing, music and cuisine. The Confederate flag carries no stigma or political meaning in Brazil.