AHC: Christian majority Lebanon

Maybe a population exchange with Syria in the 60’s. Christian Syrians going to Lebanon and Lebanese Shia going to Syria. Idk how well it would go though.
 
Wasn't that the case prior to the Civil War?
Im not sure. The Lebanese Civil War lasted from 1975 to 1990. During the 1985 census muslims were 75% of the population, this percentage has declined allthough it still more than 50%. The 1932 census showed that muslims were 49% of the population, while christians, druze and jews compromised most of the rest of the countrys religious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Lebanon
 
Possibly if it was smaller.

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The area within the dashed line was the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. If France didn't integrate the rest of Lebanon into it, then it would be Christian majority.
 
The area within the dashed line was the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. If France didn't integrate the rest of Lebanon into it, then it would be Christian majority.

I never did quite understand why France did this. I guess they wanted to make their state have as large a population as possible to make it "stronger"? But I feel like if you want to make a Christian state, you shouldn't start with a fairly good Christian core and then keep slapping Muslims* onto it until it's just over half Christian. It's not hard to imagine that migration or demographic tendencies will destroy that 53% majority quickly.

* Also Druze
 
I never did quite understand why France did this. I guess they wanted to make their state have as large a population as possible to make it "stronger"? But I feel like if you want to make a Christian state, you shouldn't start with a fairly good Christian core and then keep slapping Muslims* onto it until it's just over half Christian. It's not hard to imagine that migration or demographic tendencies will destroy that 53% majority quickly.

* Also Druze
If I'm not mistaken they had some concerns regarding both its economic viability and a desire to include the Christian majority areas that were near yet not in the Mutasarrifate. But looking at the map it would seem that relatively minor border adjustments could have achieved a good deal in both regards without reducing the majority too much.
 
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