re: In 1719 Prisoners in France, were offered freedom IF they married a whore & moved to La.

If this is a dig at Louisiana, read the article. The early settlers ended up in what is now the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the higher class immigrants packed up and moved to what is now Louisiana.

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The new immigrants and the old ones were settling in the town of Biloxi (which would later be part of Mississippi but it was part of what was called Louisiana at the time and it was the part that John Law could profit from). But with the influx of criminals and other less than ideal immigrants, many of the well to do immigrants who had come in an attempt to shape the new colony found themselves unwilling to stick around. They started moving East to New Orleans to get away from the starving criminals that were invading their little town.

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