Why did Stephen F. Austin specifically recruit settlers from the American South? please help its due at 12 :)))

The Old Three Hundred were the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men, who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin and established a colony that encompassed an area that ran from the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to near present-day Jones Creek in Brazoria County.. Stephen returned to Louisiana to recruit settlers.

this states that they were from a area he was from.

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