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Is there any feasible way to have a Muslim president of the United States before 1900? I suppose that if Orientalism had been more popular in the early United States, some ex-Deists could have converted to Islam due to the declining popularity of the Enlightenment and the appeal of the imagined Orient. It also could have become something of a political statement among the upper class of the Antebellum South as a reaction against Jacksonian populism and supposedly plebeian politics.

So, is this a thing that could have happened or should I prepare my straitjacket and tinfoil hat?
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