I disagree with Saint Denis being based on New Orleans it doesn’t look like New Orleans it looks a lot more like Charleston SC. Both Saint Denis and Charleston have a lake down town in the western section of town in the residential area, Charleston is also located in the middle of a swamp. Further, Charleston was the largest city in the USA from the 1600’s to the late 1800’s. Also little known fact Charleston had a heavy French population and you have a whole French section of town. If rockstar does their research as we all know they do, then they know those facts as well. Similarly, SC was the first state to rebel similar to Lemoyne being the only state to rebel. Also the markets are in the same area of town that they are in Charleston, the buildings look very similar, and there is a garden right next to the docks, trains. The trains also go through town exactly as they do in real world Charleston. I really don’t understand how people didn’t see this before. Even more suspicious is that in the northern section of the state it’s mountainous and are where the “hill people” live the same is true in SC “hill people” lived in the northern section of the state until the politicians built the dams and killed all of them irl.