Population Boosts in Montana, N. Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho

Stealing from the "Jews go to America instead of Israel" idea, and the idea that Wyoming and Montana were heavily settled by post-WWII Jews, I'm wondering if perhaps other similarly troubled minorities in the US might take a look at Utah (it was a long time ago, sure, but point of the matter is, the Mormons didn't like how things were going, and went out to a place where they would become the majority), and Wyoming and Montana, and decide that if those people could take a lightly-settled place, and immigrate in great enough numbers that they became the majority, then so could they themselves.

So what would be the effects of a Montana with about 2.5 million (974,989 in ours), North Dakota with about 1 million (646,844 in ours), Wyoming with about 1.5 million (544,270 in ours), and Idaho with about 3 million (1,545,801 in ours) in modern times.

Would there be any major changes to the infrastructure, beyond further urbanization? That is to say, could Idaho, say, remain that place where all the potatoes come from, with just as much (if not more) farming going on, or would the greater population push out a lot of the farms?
 
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A robust gun culture and strong support for the Second Amendment by the U.S. Jewish community. The gun culture in general will become very pro-Jewish and anti-Semitic militia types will not gain a toehold in the National Rifle Association. Also liberal politicians like Mayor Bloomberg and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, assuming they are elected to office in this alternate time line, would not dare to suggest taking away the guns of Jews or anyone else. Indeed, the two of them may have grown up pro-gun in that society.
 
The Metis don't really seem to have enough of a population to become a majority in any state, even if all of them immigrated.

That said, my partner in this little project has suggested that, during the Civil Rights Movement, or perhaps a little bit earlier, there might be an African-American movement which picks up on the aforementioned "The Mormons and the Jews made states of their own through overwhelming immigration" thought, and causes a significant population to move to, say, Idaho (it's got a low enough population that it's feasible for a large enough amount of people to move to it to become a majority there, and it borders Wyoming, Montana, and Utah, which gives it a sense of solidarity with the other three so-called Minority Majority states).

Thoughts on this?
 
How about Germans, either the US stays out of WWI and/or doesn't restrict immigration in the 1920's. Another option is that instead of the Marshall Plan the Allies go ahead with the Morgenthau Plan and move 25 million Germans out of Europe.
 
And now I'm envisioning a US where half of the states are highly dominated by this group or that group.

But still, as far as infrastructure goes, I'm more focused on the aforementioned states.
 
Perhaps the US has a more lenient policy towards Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s and 1980s, and Montana's government encourages their resettlement there in order to avoid losing their second house seat after the 1990 census?
 
That's interesting, and I'm certainly going to take a look at that possibility, buuuuut...

I'm mainly looking for help on figuring out what the ramifications would be of the population boosts I mentioned in the first post.
 
There were millions of German refugees in the end of WWII. Encourage a large portion of them to settle in the United States although we're already saturated with Germans. :D
 
As long as the additional settlement is near river valleys with water resources, it will largely be urban and not interfere with agriculture. Areas east of the continental divide will not see much growth, since they are water-poor, as parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana were already over-settled for farming.

In western Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, you will see positive technological advances to tame the cold, mountainous terrain. The biggest net gains for society will be the developments that emerge before the strict environmental regulations of the seventies.

For US demography, adding five or six million Europeans to northern regions will still be small compared to OTL immigration to warmer climates.
 
As long as the additional settlement is near river valleys with water resources, it will largely be urban and not interfere with agriculture. Areas east of the continental divide will not see much growth, since they are water-poor, as parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana were already over-settled for farming.

In western Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, you will see positive technological advances to tame the cold, mountainous terrain. The biggest net gains for society will be the developments that emerge before the strict environmental regulations of the seventies.

For US demography, adding five or six million Europeans to northern regions will still be small compared to OTL immigration to warmer climates.

For these northern states, it's going to be pretty significant having that extra population boost.
 
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