What is the history of Pennsylvania Dutch? How the fuck do they have hundreds of thousands of native speakers and yet I've never seen a single one of them in real life?
>Even though Amish and Old Order Mennonites were originally a minority group within the Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking population, today they form the vast majority. According to sociologist John A. Hostetler, less than 10 percent of the original Pennsylvania Dutch population was Amish or Mennonite.[citation needed]While most German-Americans eventually integrated with wider society and dropped their ancestral tongues, a certain subset of Germanics who are extremely resistant to change did not get with that program. Those hundreds-of-thousands of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers today all look something like this.
