The rapid growth of the Amish population brings a concomitant growth of new settlements. This research note provides a mid-century report on new Amish settlement growth in North America, emphasizing that the vast percentage of today's extant settlements have been established in the very recent past. As settlements in-fill around decades-old settlements, spatially distinctive Amish regions are taking shape, both in states of historic settlement and neighboring states. The apparent recent success of geographically outlying settlements is also of note, given the unequivocal failure of such settlements in the more distant past.
Mexico's wine history reaches more than four and a half centuries into the past, but because of Spanish restrictions wine production suffered during much of the colonial period. The disinterest in wine resulting from these restrictions continued until the 1970s when a worldwide revolution in winemaking and viticulture reached Mexico. Modern viticultural methods, improved grape varieties, and high technology winemaking equipment and practices were introduced. New areas were planted to wine grapes, older districts expanded their plantings, and new wineries were constructed. Although the amounts of wine made still are quite modest, winemaking is spread among a surprisingly large number of vineyard regions in the northern two-thirds of the country. The greatest efforts are concentrated in Baja California, which produces 70 percent of Mexico's table wine, even though it is the most distant vineyard district from the country's dominant market in Mexico City. Despite great relative growth in volume and quality in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Mexican wine industry faces considerable barriers to further growth and improvements.
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