re: #78 jaunte

First it was the Spanish and the Dutch, with the French and English close on their heels, dragging Africans and Asians along to do the hardest work, shortly thereafter followed by Germans and most of the other central Europeans. It just never stops./

My part of the country, it was the Spanish/French/English tossing us back and forth for awhile, while the expat French in parts of Canada came down and just dealt with whatever, plus the Africans who mixed in with the European French & Spanish, giving us our Creole culture … whew. We were already a mixed up bunch, have been for some time.