[Technocrat]

I bet that the state they went to would generate no large scale mining industry, no tourism, no world class medical research facilities, no significant universities, and no significant agricultural production, and certainly no mini-Silicon Valleys (like Utah). I bet the crime rate would be quite high, at least against non-muslims, and the poverty rate would make Mississippi look like Vermont.

It's the culture, stupid...

(Of course, most of the low-population states aren't all that far from the lynching days....)

[Stultis]

I bet that the state they went to would generate no large scale mining industry, no tourism, no world class medical research facilities, no significant universities, and no significant agricultural production, and certainly no mini-Silicon Valleys (like Utah).

I wouldn't be so sure. Muslims immigrants to the U.S. (unlike many European countries) tend to have a pretty high education level on average. Pakistanis (the most numerous Muslim immigrant group in America) have the highest of any immigrant group period, or maybe second only to Indians (I think the two groups are essentially equal).