Ohio passed up Pennsylvania as the state with the most Amish sometime back in the 1990s.
I would think it would be "I Brake for ShooFly Pie", but then, I don't speak Amish...
They should transplant to the desert. There’s a whole bunch of nothing out here and the heat will keep the tourists at bay.
Plenty of good land in eastern Nebraska...
As my late Grandpop Klauser would say, now we’ll see more of the richest farmland in the world turned into subdivisions.
They should come to Alaska. Particularly the Interior region. Lots of room and little government!
Foks, when you get there, let me know.
It’s not easy anymore to find a pleasant, green place where the idiots of the world will leave you alone to live your life in peace.
I’ll probably pack up the van and join you.
Now that Pennsylvania’s Republican governor has given in to Gay Marriage, the Amish have no choice but to leave the state.
There is a newer group of transplants from PA in Fountain City IN these days. Rather than adopt the black buggy style used in most of IN they brought their gray buggies with them.
The biggest threat to the Amish in Lancaster, PA is simply the cost of farmland. There is less due to development Amish families are larger than average American families. This has caused farmland to spike in cost and pushed Amish in to the trades. The exodus of Amish to form new communities in other states has been going on for 30 or more years.
PA should be glad. Every time I check out FreeRepublic, it looks like those rascals are up to no good!
Are we talking about the real Amish? Sarasota, Florida has lots of Amish.
I love the Lancaster (PA) area - you can’t beat some of the restaurants for serious home-cooked meals! But yes, it is ironic that the “simple life” has fostered such commercialism. I feel the same way when I visit Gettysburg... not nearly the amount of tourist traps, but plenty nonetheless. It’s just weird to think that “entertainment” has come from such a horrific event in our history. I guess that’s just the way of it, though.
There are many Amish and Mennonite families from Lancaster County buying farms in my area...north central Ohio.
They make great neighbors...no noise.
The Amish in Central PA still have a lot of fine farms and without the commercialization.
One of my all time favorite trout streams is bounded by their farms. They leave buffer zones along the streams and don’t use a lot of fertilizer or pesticides, so the stream hatches are some of the most diverse I have seen.
You will see them plowing the fields with teams of eight horses. On Sundays along the stream you would hear the clip clop and then up to forty carriages of courting teens would pass by.
They’ve been moving to southern Iowa and northern Missouri in droves for a couple of decades.
I was surprised to see many Amish near Long Prairie and Wadena in Minnesota. They must be hardy folks as my wife and I drove by an Amish woman going home in her horse drawn buggy on US 71 when the temperature was -26 degrees.
I have the feeling there will always be Amish in Lancaster County, even if illegal aliens have to be hired to pretend to be them.