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The Amish people fled Germany about 300 years ago to escape religious persecution. Martin Boehm is generally credited with leading the emmigration, if I remember my reading correctly, and settled in what is now the Lancaster/York area of Pennsylvania. (I could not find a relationship between him and Rev John Philip Boehm who came over about the same time to what eventually became Bethlehem.) As the German language developed, and the religion became more lenient, the Pennsylvania Deutsch grew further and further from its roots. Note that all PA Dutch were not Amish, but the dividing lines are very grey.

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Because they are.

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