Essentially, I'm looking for some answers considering the Penn Dutch language/accent, i.e. the stuff spoken in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_Country by the Amish and Mennonites... and whoever else speaks that, really.

The facts I've got so far are that it's near The Pitt, but it's the kind of area that may not have been as devastated by a bomb, or had as many problems with a lack of (and also the following battle for) technology following the war.

What I'd like to know is if there were any vaults near there and they survived the initial bombings, and if their lifestyle either kept them alive or caused them them die out. It would be interesting how that sort of culture would evolve in Fallout as well.

Since they reject technology, I doubt they would have tried to save themselves by going to a Vault or any other type of Fallout Shelter.

They are none violent so I doubt they had any means to defend themselves beyond farm tools. Raider groups or Slavers would have easily defeated them.

They reject modern medican, so radiation and other disease outbreak would have killed any that did not die out right.

Still the simple answer is: we don't know what happened to them, but for the reasons I have listed. I don't believe they are still around.

You may be right Styles, that pretty much puts most of it into perspective.

But I'd wonder if they would change their lifestyles with the rise of Fallout tech, or after the war hit what their ideals would be. They are a pretty patriotic people for the US, so that may affect the community as a whole.

What abput the prospect of them becoming ghouls or a slave society? (the slave thing makes me think about how the africans in the 1800's reacted, with voodoo and a societal sort of thing within slavery)

I don't know enough about them, but I can't see them ever becoming slavers. I can't see them abandoning their beliefs and take up tech, and even if they did.. would they know how to use it? Then again

They are a religious people, and forum rules keep us from going to much into real world religions.. But maybe they see the Great War as the Biblical Armageddon. Having not been taken into heaven (those that survived) they see themselves as "left behind."

That could make an interesting factions "The Left Behind." A group of ghouls and humans that felt they were abandoned by their god and spend their time trying to win back his favour by fighting the servants of "The Dark One."

Mmh, I meant them being enslaved, but I see your point otherwise

THAT SEEMS VERY INTERESTING, actually! I myself don't know too much about them either, other than their rather-too-breaded fruit pies, but that seems like it would be something really cool in consideration of the Fallout universe--I could even see it as an add-on or something.

I'd almost think that perhaps Vault-Tec would want to mess with the Penn Dutch region a little to explore the concept of creating a society that must survive using what they shun, or forcing them to accept new technologies for the same purpose.

I'd imagine they were wiped out.

Unless a group managed to remain hidden an secluded from raiding parties and such.

I love it! Neo-Armish who presume they only live because they werent devout enough...