Our Mennonites call themselves “Old Order Mennonites”. There is one family in Englewood that we have known for almost 30 years. The group in Delano split and part moved to Englewood. My husband asked him once if they were Amish or Mennonite. He smiled and said, “we are Mennonite but everybody calls us Amish, so we just smile and go along”. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a mixed community of both. He said the best way to tell them apart are the beards and mustaches. LOL Before he joined the Mennonite community, he was an electrical engineer in the English world.
I think that explanation is a good one. They smile and go along, so no one knows any differently.