Louisiana
In 1763, France ceded Louisiana to Spain to compensate for the loss of Florida, ceded to the British in 1763 after losing the war of the 7 years (Spain and France were allies). Thus, between 1778 and 1783, groups from the Spanish Canary Islands and Málaga were recruited in Spain and sent to Louisiana in order to populate regions of New Orleans. So, came to Louisiana more than 2,700 canaries. In 1800, Spain returned Louisiana to France, which then sell to the U.S. state in 1803. The descendants of Spanish settlers still living there.
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“The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark
green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone
there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)