"They will lay in bed, no sex allowed ... That allows people to use electricity all while remaining off the grid. The "Old Order Amish" appear to be living in a more modern way than we assumed.

All this diversity makes it risky to generalize about "the Amish," as though they were pressed from the same cultural cookie cutter. Nonetheless, all groups use horse and buggy transportation ...

Scholars define the Old Order Amish by two distinctive features: 1) the use of horse-and-buggy transportation, and 2) the use of Pennsylvania German dialect in church services and daily conversation.