What religion is this? They resemble Amish, but are not?

Question

They dress similar to Amish in style, but with more color. The outfits are the same, yet Amish only seem to use colors like black and grey. These people use alot of bright blue with black. But other than that the clothes are the same - Abe Lincoln looking top hats for the men and the Abe Lincoln beard as well, and dresses that pretty much come down past the knees almost to the ankles for the women with a white bonnet. Unlike Amish, these people actually drive cars and use power. This is why im almost certain they are not Amish as i regularly see them in cars and the such. Im in Ohio and see quite a few of them in the farmland/small town areas.
Any clues?

Answer 1

Probably Mennonites, and there are also various Brethren groups that wear this type of clothing.

Answer 2

There are a number of possibilities:

They could be Amish. When people think Amish, they generally think Old Order Amish (among the more conservative Amish), but there are other types and some of them drive and use electricity. (And even Old Order Amish wear a lot of color with their black or grey. You see a lot of green, blue, wine, purple, etc.)

They could be Mennonite, as others have pointed out. The Amish broke off from the Mennonites, and there are a lot of similarities even today. As with the Amish, there are many different kinds of Mennonites, some with more restrictions on lifestyle than others.

I doubt they're Shakers. Since Shakers believed in celibacy, adoption by religious sects was outlawed, and there weren't enough adult converts, their community kept shrinking. Today there are just a handful of elderly Shakers -- Wikipedia puts the number at 4, which sounds about right.

There are plain Quakers, however. There is no standard dress among them, but many women use the cape dresses that you see in other plain churches, many cover, and men often wear broadfall trousers, hats, and mustache-less beards. The dress differs in the details from Amish and Mennonite, but outsiders often don't pick up on details. ;-)

If you really want to know what church these people belong to, just ask. It's not a rude question as long as you're polite when you ask. :-)

Answer 3

This group is called Mennonites . The Mennonites broke away from the Amish Church and became a sect of their own they believe in different things the Amish and the Mennonites at one time refused to even talk to one another after they became two separate groups

Answer 4

They are probably Mennonites. The Amish are actually a subset of Mennonites. They lived near me in southeastern Pennsylvania where I grew up, and ran a very nice Vacation Bible School. They are pleasant, gentle people who are not as strict as the Amish, but still pretty conservative. Don't wear jewelry or make-up, and they are quiet and honest. I like them better than most Christians, because they are so gentle-hearted. They don't go in for threats of hellfire and damnation.

Answer 5

They're Mennonites. I live near large Amish and Mennonite communities and my best friend is Mennonite. They are similar to the Amish but less restricted in what they can do.

Answer 6

Mennonites

Answer 7

Mennonites

Answer 8

Mennonite

Answer 9

Maybe Mennonites?

Some Amish have taken to driving cars they paint them entirely black including the chrome.

Answer 10

Mennonite or Hutterite.

There was a Hutterite community near where I lived in Spokane, WA a decade or so ago . . . lived like the Amish, but had tractors and cars and so forth.