AHC: Gaelic speaking North American state

With a POD of whenever you like, establish a Gaelic speaking state in North America. It may be founded at any time, but the catch is that it must survive into the present [Some crappy colony/off-shoot that forms on the fringe of New England or New France and just gets absorbed or annexed early on is a bit too easy mode/loop-hole mode I think].
 
England never conquer Ireland and Irish found colonies to North America on 16th or 17th century.
 

birdboy2000

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William Alexander's colony in Nova Scotia survives - say, from Charles II being less of a hurry to make peace, and getting to keep it at the peace table. With a successful colony already in existence, the Darien Scheme is butterflied away, and the Act of Union is avoided, although the Union of the Crowns remains.

The poor, overpopulated highlands provide most of the emigrants to the colony, which eventually achieves independence from the Scottish Crown.
 
Cape Breton remains independent of Nova Scotia, and then never joins Confederation?

There are (or were at one point?) more native Scots Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton than in Scotland, I understand.
 
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