Reply #2: Yep, true dat.

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And when they got to Louisiana they met and married with the local Indains, the Creoles, the English, Spanish and French, the escaped and free slaves (The Faubourg Treme was the first place former slaves could buy houses and it became a free black neighborhood when many were still slaves) and gave us the Gumbo that is Louisiana today, not to mention the massive numbers of Vietnamese, Indain and Indonesian immigrants who love the tropical climate and have become a big part of the place, and the Mexican workers who came to build after Katrina and stayed.

It's seriously cool, and the people are stunningly resilient.