Sorting the people by the village of origin who came from "southwestern Germany" to Virginia, the results are (numbers in parenthesis are the today's population when known):
Though most of these villages are from one small region which could be taken as the Kraichgau, there is some geographical diversity outside this region. Some comparisons to the people from the Siegen area would show that more of the people from the Kraichgau region reached their decisions as independent families. From the Siegen area, there was a tendency to travel in groups. This group had its share of friends and relatives, but many of the villages were removed from the others and it's doubtful that was any interaction prior to departure.
Schwaigern contributed more people than any other village. We will explore this more.
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.