Every Amish buggy I’ve seen has electric hazard lights on it, I don’t think zero electricity is very common. I know someone who has an Amish landlord who has a giant tractor.
In general, they're against the "English" world. You would hear different reasoning in different areas. Just like any religion, there are many many splinter groups
If people are interested in the history of German-American/anglo-American dynamic head to Wikipedia and look up “fancy Dutch.” The separation of the German/English communities was common up until ww1/ww2 era for obvious reasons. Benjamin Franklin despised that German immigrants wouldn’t assimilate to Anglo culture and wrote some essays against them 😂 Growing up my great grandma said we were Penn deustch and great grandpa was raised Mennonite. Very interesting stuff:
There's many, many variations now. There's some out there in PA where their power tool is a Clydesdale. Others yet showed me their furniture inventory on a mobile app. In 2026 regarding Amish, there is no "they", you need to be specific to the family or branch.
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u/caserock 4h ago
That's just your local Amish community, there are many different types and several of them are zero-electricity