This is an expansion from a diary comment I made earlier and this is mostly a thought experiment. I have no belief this is especially likely to happen.
I want to open this saying that Jews deserve a state where they can live in safety and that will probably only happen when there is a 'Jewish State' like Israel. Israel is NOT that state and probably never will be. Jews are not safer there, but they need a safe place... but this diary isn't about Jews, it's about another group which has arguably suffered far more than the Jews of Europe ever did.
In fact, their oppression is so ingrained into Western culture that they are most commonly known by an insult- Gypsies. If you ask any of them, they will likely tell you that they are not Gypsies, they are Romani. The name Gypsy comes from the false idea that the Roma people were Egyptian in origin and only serves to continue to separate them from the rest of the European population.
No one actually knows for certain where the Romani originated, but linguistically, their origins trace them back to the Indian subcontinent. There is also genetic evidence to support this, but it is not wholly conclusive. The fact, though, is that Romani people have lived in Europe for at least 500 years. They tend to live in closed communities and do not generally intermarry, similar to many of the Jews of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. And, of course, the Holocaust not only killed 6 million Jews, but up to and possibly over a million Romani.
It is unknown how many Romani people there are in the world today but estimates put it over four million. Untold numbers of them refuse to admit to their ethnicity due to fear of discrimination and abuse. Even today in 'enlightened' Europe, the Romani are treated like second-class citizens. They are routinely beaten up, spat upon, insulted and generally treated with derision.
If any ethnic group in this world ever needed the protection of a benevolent state which puts their interests at the top, it is the Romani people. Their culture and way of life is being trampled away by Europeans and the Western World happily stereotypes them as dirty, lowlife thieves- hence the term 'gypped' meaning to swindle.
The idea of a Romani state is not without precedent either. For a brief time, the island of Corfu was a Romani fiefdom. Of course, I don't have any idea where this state should be today any more than an idea of where the Jewish state should have been put instead. All I know is that it is the 21st century and there are millions of Romani who have no safe place to call their own and no nation willing to accept them as equals.
Of course, there are a raft of problems to be solved here apart from where to put it including the willingness of the Romani to relocate there (although I imagine, much like in many Muslim countries after 1948, a lot of countries would go to extreme measures to get them to their homeland).
So, what do you think? Do the Romani deserve a homeland? If they do, where would it be located?
By the way, do you know who the most famous Romani was in history? Most people aren't even aware of it, but he is beloved by millions the world over:
It's interesting to put his heroic "Little Tramp" character into that perspective.