AHC: More Arab/Islamic immigration to the North America/US

Arabs and North Africans aren't Black, though.



Yes--before they lost their religion, no?



True; thus, should I have created a new thread for this?
...um so Arab is a socio-linguistic identity aligned with long ties to Islam and Arabic cultural expansion. It's not a race, go to Sudan and Oman.

North Africans are a composite of many people, so too are Berbers. There is not in fact a singular phenotype.

Thirdly the Poster asked for Islamic migration that includes West African Islam

Fourthly while they did in fact have forced conversion there are traces of Islamo-centered cultural aspects to black American society.

Beyond all that there was some advice in early statehood that suggested that Moroccans brought into Slavery be freed. Clearly Arab North Africans could and would be black, but that's beside the point.

You have an "out" utilize Morocco America's first recognizer and bring them in.
 
Under this act Morocco could have built a mosque for its citizens and sent imams to keep Islam alive in South Carolina.
Also slaves from todays Senegal and Mali could have used this to free themselves. Alot of tribes there still swore allegiance to the Sultan.
 

MERRICA

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I'm going to focus specifically on the Arab part, specifically the Christian Arab part, let's say that Henry Ford heavily promotes even more than OTL, the jobs in the auto industry to Arabs. And the state of Michigan gets in on the act by promoting middle Eastern immigration to Michigan.

And also to increase it, let's say that The Ottoman Empire decides to genocide Arabs as well as the Christian minorities within the empire and falls flat on its face, major violence and civil war in there with the Turks vs Everyone else in the empire.

This leads to major Assyrian, Syriac, Greek and Arab immigration to America-specifically Michigan as chaos rages in the Middle east for a while.

Also perhaps the 1924 immigration act still gets past, but perhaps Michigan threatens to defeat the bill and secede from the Union causing a constitutional crisis( also adding that the increased immigration to Michigan makes it a more influential state) this gets worked out with a compromise between the 2 sides, No limits for European and Middle Eastern immigration but nothing anywhere else.

The natural pattern of immigration continues and many Arab Christians move to Michigan for jobs in Detroit. Arab Immigration drastically slows down in the 1930s but picks up in the 1940s and 1950s and goes all the way to the 1990s where it slows down to a small trickle.

And America in the modern day is a "whiter" country mostly due to the fact that the insanely restricted 1924 immigration act never goes anywhere as the Federal government sees it as too much trouble.
 
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