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That’s the question asked and imagined in CSA: Confederate States of America, a satirical mockumentary I’ve been hearing a lot buzz about. It’s formatted as a sort of fake History Channel special, with fake commercials and all, about the history of this country after the South won the Civil War. From EURWeb.com:

For instance, the first ad, for Confederate Family Insurance, features a carefree white family frolicking in front of their suburban home with a picket fence. The commercial is unremarkable till the very end when a voiceover proudly proclaims, “For over 100 years, protecting a people and their property,” while showing a slave toiling away in the garden.

Lampooning everything from World War II to the Home Shopping Network, the production presents a very familiar country except that slavery still exists. So, the NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Chattel People, and blacks attempting to escape from their condition are diagnosed as suffering from a mental illness referred to as Runaway Slave Syndrome…

In a telling postscript, the picture sorts out some of its fact from fiction, explaining that much of what you’ve just witnessed, such as Niggerhead Cigarettes and Coon Chicken were not fabrications but real products which were only relatively recently discontinued. Meanwhile, the culture is still saturated with subtle slave imagery, such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.