Quote Originally Posted by BDC
This always happens. People leave their country of origin, form a clustered community, and become more 'traditional' than anyone at home ever was. See the Amish and the lack of Amish in Europe where they originally sprung up.
Actually, our religious fringe just preferred to relocate overseas rather than get persecuted. Freedom of religion wasn't exactly the norm back then, as the round century of mass atrocity, general fanaticism and endemic at least quasi-religious warfare after the Reformation kind of makes obvious.

These seem to have mainly started getting more hardline only after 2001. I presume it won't be necessary for me to wring a model out of wire explaining why ?