AHC/WI: an independent or autonomous Deaf state?

Could Deaf people have created their own state at any point? Either a fully independent sovereign state, or an autonomous state of another country.

You'd probably need an international Deaf sovereignty movement to spring up, a la Zionism.

If so... firstly, where might such a state be located? And secondly, what would its culture be likely to look like? Would non-deaf children who grew up in this country, to deaf parents, ever learn spoken language?
 
It probably wouldn't be somewhere very cold, as they need their hands to communicate. Also maybe somewhere very windy, as the noise wouldn't bother them (nor would they mind wind farms).
What would they put on cars instead of horns? Maybe they could feel a subwoofer... but I'm sure it'd be some sort of flashing light.

Also they'd be using telegraphs well into the 90's. Sounds comfy
 
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