conservative
adjective
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
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Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village of approximately 21,000 about 25 miles away from Bloomingburg, has been embroiled in controversy since the mid-1970s, when members of the superconservative Satmar sect began buying land there.
From Newsweek