Most religiously diverse US possible

Your challenge: with a POD after 1790, give the United States as much religious diversity as possible. Not just the catholic plurality+a bunch of protestant sects+a few million jewish people, but a serious amount of diversity, with a decent number of eastern orthodox, jewish, and perhaps muslim, buddhist, and hindu population. Maybe you throw in a traditional african religion as well. Set...................Go!
 
OTL we have a significant population of non Catholic/Protestant/Jewish people made of all types of religions. You didnt think all those people who came here in the last 30 years just gave up there religion to all be Born Again Christians did you. Too get truly equal numbers would need ASB intervention or way different policy in regards to immigration, Encouraging more Hindu's, Muslims, Buddhist's has to start way earlier and in larger numbers to balance the influx of European's in the 19th century which in itself is ASB .
 

Maur

Banned
OTL we have a significant population of non Catholic/Protestant/Jewish people made of all types of religions. You didnt think all those people who came here in the last 30 years just gave up there religion to all be Born Again Christians did you. Too get truly equal numbers would need ASB intervention or way different policy in regards to immigration, Encouraging more Hindu's, Muslims, Buddhist's has to start way earlier and in larger numbers to balance the influx of European's in the 19th century which in itself is ASB .
Well, if you consider blocking Chinese immigration ASB.
 
No Chinese Exclusion Act? Or perhaps the Chinese Exclusion Act could be enforced only on those trying to directly enter the country. For instance, IOTL, a trickle of Chinese immigrants managed to bypass the Exclusion Act by landing in Mexico and following the trade routes into the Southwest.
 
Another: more inclusive and less exterminatory approach to natives.

As long as the "white man" is dominant, the indigenous people will be influenced even without overt threats, and convert to Christianity en mass. In fact nowadays the indigenous people are often more devoutly Christian than the majority "white men".
 
As long as the "white man" is dominant, the indigenous people will be influenced even without overt threats, and convert to Christianity en mass. In fact nowadays the indigenous people are often more devoutly Christian than the majority "white men".

Actually.. this is more complicated, I think. Lot of syncretism, and later, native churches...
 

MSZ

Banned
Is there a possiblity for Christians of all Protestant and Orthodox rites to form their own state churches? That alone woul give you 100 of them?
 
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