AH challenge: United States with Gypsy majority.

Your challenge should you choise to accept it is to have the groups of people commonly called gypsies in english (European Romani people, Irish Travels ect) make up 50% or more of the united states population.
 
Your challenge should you choise to accept it is to have the groups of people commonly called gypsies in english (European Romani people, Irish Travels ect) make up 50% or more of the united states population.

Due in large part to their traditional nomadism, the Romani Gypsies have always been a small minority in every country they have ever settled. As is the case with the Irish Travellers, the Germanic Yeniche, the Sinti ect cetera. Nomadic subcultures living on the fringes of larger sedentary cultures are always going to be the minority.
 
Can't be done, absent some kind of holocaust that annihilates everybody of non-Gypsy descent. There just simply aren't enough of them, even if every single one of them moves to the USA.
 
Your challenge should you choise to accept it is to have the groups of people commonly called gypsies in english (European Romani people, Irish Travels ect) make up 50% or more of the united states population.

This is simply not possible, unless, perhaps you're talking about the United States of the Danube, rather than the United States of America.
 
The only thing I can think of is to have every single gypsy in Europe deported to the American colonies, who then never get any other immigration for some reason. It does not seem plausible, though.
 
I dunno, lots of them immigrate here and get really busy?

I'm talking about a "I'm 1/5th Cherokee" type deal. Do they have to have a distinct culture or can they be assimilated?
 
As others said, it simply isn't possible. Now, I supposed one might be able to have a US with Gypsies being a large minority, comparable in numbers to, say, the Russians or Poles, but an absolute majority? There is no national group that makes up a majority in the US - the largest such group OTL are the Germans, at roughly 15%.
 
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