Talk:Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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[edit] emigration from Lancaster co

I removed the recent addition: A large number of emigrants have left the Lancaster County area in modern times, moving northward into the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, and the Finger Lakes, the Mohawk Valley, and even farther north in New York, spreading the culture over a wider area.not because it is untrue but because it was inserted smack in the middle of an unrelated paragraph, separating "topic sentence" from additional amplification. While probably true (except for the "large number") I am not sure what to do with it. It can accurately be said that nearly every county on the East coast has been a large source of emigrants for westward expansion. It is a basic fact of american demographic history. These two destinations were not especially prominent ones. According to a history of the Amish and Mennonites, most of the emigration in the 19th century of the Amish was further west into Western Pa, Ohio, Indiana and Canada. There are few Amish in the Endless mountains region as it is not prime farm country. If Pollinator is not referring to Amish emigration, I suspect those specific destinations are fairly minor ones compared with the major directions of internal westward migration in the 19th century. Accurate references to "large numbers" rather than a few families might be convincing info otherwise. alteripse 10:36, 9 September 2005 (UTC)