On Feb 1, 12:33 pm, "Ron's Inspector's Inspector" <get.lost@invalid>
wrote:

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> Hey, dumb-ass... there is no one specific people known as the "Pennsylvania
> Dutch." There are the Amish, Mennonites, and the Germanic colonists, who
> live in the same area of south-central Pennsylvania, hence the "Pennsylvania
> Dutch" moniker. And fortunately there are no Amish on the Internet; I'm

Chust for so...("just for so" as we say), there is a Pennsylvania
German/Pennsylvania Dutch culture which is distinct, and, in many
cases, dying out.

There are two types of "Dutchies" (Deitschers/Germans) - the "plain"
people (the Anabaptists, a branch of Christianity which believes in
adult baptism and which includes the Amish, Mennonites, and the
Brethren denominations) who disdain ornamentation and various levels
of technology, and the "gay" people (Lutherans and the (former)
Reformed-now-United-Church-of-Christ denominations) which retained the
language and much of the tradition but which practiced infant baptism
and used technology just as their "English" neighbors did.

This is verifiable through sources such as wikipedia and Kutztown
University of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage
Center.

The Lutherans and Reformed people remained in Pennsylvania, for the
most part. The Anabaptists needed to give land to their sons as
working farms, so they moved further west in the state, and continued
into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and several provinces of
Canada to obtain large tracts of land suitable for subdivision.

So, in brief, anything in Pennsylvania could work. It has thousands
of miles of state highway, much of which meanders through different
counties. Look at PA 309, which runs from Philadelphia to Wilkes-
Barre. It runs through Lehigh County, considered part of Pennsylvania
Dutch country.

We should be proud of this part of our national culture. It gave us
funnel cakes.