WI: Muslim State in the US?

The only plausible way I can think of to get a Muslim state in the US would be to have black slaves imported from Africa be largely Muslim, have them keep to Islam while in North America, and then form a reasonably large population of free blacks that becomes a majority.

That wouldn't work. The hardest part would be to keep their Islamic religion alive in an overwhelming Christian and evangelical nation, especially in the early 19th century.
 
I don't see how it's implausible to have Muslims move to somewhere with a low population like the Dakotas, Montana or Wyoming and become a majority.
 
Or for a variation on the theme, maybe New Mexico?

In the Spanish Empire, the province of New Mexico was six months by mule from Mexico City, and was never really targeted by the Mexican Inquisition. So you got a lot of Marrano families that emigrated to what's now the American southwest.

Maybe duplicate that with the Moriscos? (Although I'm at a loss for what would make them stop being crypto-Muslims before 1900.)
 
I don't see how it's implausible to have Muslims move to somewhere with a low population like the Dakotas, Montana or Wyoming and become a majority.

There has to be basis for the formation of said community and then for its concentration in a single locale to such anextent that non-Muslims are outnumbered.
 
I'd think there'd probably be a majorty-Muslim coutnry in the European Union before there would be a majority Muslim state in the U.S.A., but that's just me.

When you consider that communities like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildale,_Utah

not to mention Utah, exist in the real world, it's not that implausible that we could get a majority-Muslim state somewhere in the West or Upper Midwest. What would be really interesting is if those Muslims were Druze or Allawi (which actually wouldn't be that much more far-fetched than a majority-Muslim state, given the number of Syrian and Lebanese Christians who emigrated in OTL).
 
When you consider that communities like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildale,_Utah

not to mention Utah, exist in the real world, it's not that implausible that we could get a majority-Muslim state somewhere in the West or Upper Midwest. What would be really interesting is if those Muslims were Druze or Allawi (which actually wouldn't be that much more far-fetched than a majority-Muslim state, given the number of Syrian and Lebanese Christians who emigrated in OTL).

Perhaps American Druze are very good soldiers like their OTL Israeli counterparts...
 
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