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Since it's supposedly airing on television, there's also faux commercial breaks advertising several Afrophobic products that you'd think were made up. Sadly, most of them actually once existed, as shown during the credits.

* [[Abraham Lincoln]]: Remembered as the man who lost the war of Northern Aggression.

* [[Adolf Hitler]]: An ally of the CSA, but couldn't reach an agreement over slavery.

* [[Blackface]]: Since there's no black actors in the CSA (and nobody would want them), they're played by white actors in blackface. Also, Lincoln apparently donned blackface when on the run.

* [[The BBC]]: The CSA documentary was produced by the British Broadcasting Service, likely the [[Fictional Counterpart|in-universe version]] of the BBC.

* [[Content Warnings]]: Because CSA (the in-universe documentary) is so controversial from the Confederate perspective, Channel 6 puts up this Viewer Discretion Advised disclaimer:

{{quote| ''The following program is of foreign origin. The content does not reflect the views of this station and may be unsuitable for children and servants. Viewer Discretion is advised.''}}

* [[Crapsack World]]: The CSA, if you're of any nationality apart from those considered white, and even then you can be accused of "passing". Just ask {{spoiler|John Ambrose Fauntroy V}}. But if you're European-American, life in the CSA would most likely have been pretty swell...assuming you were a full-blooded conservative traditionalist, that is.

* [[Culture Police]]: The repression of black music and those inspired by such, due to Confederate culture laws, end up making American culture stupid and boring, while Canada benefits as mentioned above.

** "My great-grandfather did not have sexual relations with that woman!"

** "Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?"

* [[John F Kennedy]]: Still becomes president (as a ''Republican''), and still gets shot for supporting the ending of slavery.

* [[La Résistance]]: The John Brown Underground, a covert abolitionist movement that is mentioned repeatedly. By the film's present time they are operating out of Canada.

* [[Lost Aesop]]: So, because the Confederates won the Civil War, America ended up becoming...[[In Spite of a Nail|really not all that different from what it became anyway]]? If so, what was the point of even (out-of-universe) making this satire?

* [[May Contain Evil]]: Contrari, a drug that supposedly "cures" drapetomania. In reality, it just dopes the slaves enough to be compliant.

* [[Planet of Hats]]: American culture as depicted in this film seems ''obsessed'' with slavery, to a frankly absurd degree.

* [[Politically Correct History]]: Played with. After the Civil War, there's an attempt to make the abolition movement, and the North, look misguided in popular culture.

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

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

* [[Red Scare]]: Subverted with an abolitionist movement in the 1950s. It emerges from Canada and creates its own version of the "Weather Underground". It ends with the construction of a wall dividing the CSA and Canada.

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

* [[Speculative Documentary]]

* [[The War On Straw]]: HOLY SHIT.

* [[Truth in Television]]: Regardless of how it's presented, the movie's real purpose is to highlight a serious and legitimate real-world issue — namely, racism, both de facto and institutionalized. For example, virtually all of the "fake" advertisements used in the commercial breaks are for real products. Granted, most of the products were discontinued or renamed to remove racist imagery within the last hundred years, but it mentions that the restaurant chain Sambo's was in operation as late as the 1980s and Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima are still in use as advertising icons.

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

** Presumably those legislators who supported the breakaway that could be caught were arrested, tried, and and punished, and the two Virginias were reunited (not that different from Reconstruction as it actually happened).

* [[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.

[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

[[Category:CSA Confederate States Of America]]