Cold, I agree, I see some resemblance in practices....
 
 
Amish Redneck.......
 

 
 
 
English Redneck.......

 

I think they tend to draw a label faster than most. It's probably true that a higher percentage of them keep fish illegally, but there's something to be said for the facts that 1) they tend to attract a little more attention than another non-amish dude with a beard and a hat, fishing, and 2) its easier for us to apply a label, because it volunteers itself. Its far easier to say, that AMISH dude, than to say, that dude...over there...in the blue boat...

And once you see it time after time, its a small stretch to label them all.

There's plenty of non-amish guys that do crummy stuff like that too...but its harder to find ways to identify them as different from the rest of us.

The Daily American with the Tribune past Sunday said they were migrating away......