CSA: Confederate States of America: Difference between revisions

* [[Mockumentary]]

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The film seesaws between jokey segments and more serious bits dealing with race.

* [[Not So Different]]: One scene in the film is a news clip about a football game. The Washington Indians <ref>(as opposed to the Washington ''Redskins'')</ref> are playing the New York Niggers. Highlights the racist undertones of modern society.

** In the closing text-crawl about how most of the racist products advertised during the film were real at some point, it's pointed out that Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima are holdovers of slave imagery. The idea behind those was originally that your trusted slave had made the food, so you know it must be good to eat.

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: The CSA rejects Hitler's final solution because it "wastes human livestock".

* [[Propaganda Machine]]: John Ambrose Fauntroy V's "Family Values" program.

* [[Retraux]]: Many segments are altered to look like old footage dating to the earliest days of film.

* [[Richard Nixon]]: Seen briefly in a debate against Kennedy. As the Democratic candidate against Republican Kennedy.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Runaways'' and ''Leave It To Beulah'', among others. ''[[wikipedia:Beulah (series)|Beulah]]'' [[But It Really Happened!|was a real show]], though, and you're watching actual clips from it. It's just that the credits fail to mention it at all in its rundown of what was legit.

* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"Me and Fauntroy... we kin."}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The couple dozen anti-slavery, anti-secession counties in northwestern Virginia that broke away from that state to remain in the Union (eventually becoming West Virginia). Here, the Union's conquered, so...now what?

* [[World War II]]: The Confederacy's an Axis-friendly country that perceives the regime of Nazi Germany as a "biologically correct" campaign. Confederate Secretary John Ambrose Fauntroy III fails to persuade Hitler to consider slavery of Jews as a more productive alternative to the Nazi program of mass extermination, but nevertheless guarantees him that the Confederacy won't interfere with Germany on the battlefield.

** The Confederacy perceives the existence of Japan, an ''Asian'' power, as an inherent challenge to their racialist policies. So the Confederation of American States launches a surprise attack on Yokohama, Tokyo Bay, followed up by a full-scale invasion of Japan in a reversal of Japan's historical entrance into [[World War Two]].