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21 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2012 09:19PM

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Comment author: gwern 14 August 2012 04:55:49PM 1 point [-]

Yes, that's a good point, although now that I think about it I don't actually know what happened to the 'original' Amish. The Wikipedia Swiss Brethren mentions a lot of persecution, but it also says they sort of survive as the Swiss Mennonite Conference; regardless, they clearly don't number in the hundreds of thousands or millions like they do in America.