For those who don't recall from school history, Walloons were the people who twisted balloons into little animals and flowers at Harvest Fairs. One year, the guy doing that at the Liège Fair got feisty and did some porno balloons. That's when they had to suddenly run away and found themselves making a fast exit on a slow ship to the New World.
The Huguenots were a strict religious group that declared everyone must be named "Hugh" or "Calvin" or "Hobbes" in honor of their patron, saint Bill Watterson. Their villages, called "Borgs" were always planned squares and their homes were cubes with the plumbing on the outside where it froze in winter weather. This forced them to emigrate to Miami Beach before there was air conditioning. Once settled, they built cubical homes from pink plastic flamingos and decorated with Picasso cubist paintings.