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The tidewater aristocrats in every colony actively recruited immigrants to act as buffer zone between them and the Indians/French.

The Quakers were very active recruiters since they were pacifists and had to throw some Scots-Irish and Germans between themselves and the forces of evil.

As the back country filled with frontier settlers they drifted down fro Philadelphia on the Great Wagon Road until the Piedmont was filled from PA to GA

That continued until the settlement of Texas when the Spanish did the same thing, attracting migrants from TN and KY to act as a buffer between the Spanish and the Comanche and Lipan Apache.

Of course it backfired in each and every case since those wild men on the western frontier were determined not to be subject to any power, foreign or domestic.

TN fought a war with North Carolina for state independence, then after the Spaniards lured them to Texas the grandsons of the fighters of the Regulator War turned on the Spanish.