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Q&A: Why is the Amish population growing so fast in America?

The Amish, a Christian denomination and a three-century-old ethnic group of German migrants known for its strict lifestyle standards, are one of the fastest-growing minority populations in the U.S. For more than a century, the number of Amish people—whose American lineage traces back to Pennsylvania...

Q&A: Why is the Amish population growing so fast in America?
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The Amish, a Christian denomination and a three-century-old ethnic group of German migrants known for its strict lifestyle standards, are one of the fastest-growing minority populations in the U.S. For more than a century, the number of Amish people—whose American lineage traces back to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s and the Midwest by the mid-1800s—has grown rapidly, from several thousand in 1910 to 250,000 a century later.

Originally published at Phys.org

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