Regarding post #31, this comment may be somewhat unclear...
This restructured comment may be more understandable...
Lee, let me try to explain it this way:
If the "twin villages" are absorbed into both the towns of Lancaster and Cheektowaga, in some ways those absorptions could be compared to a tiny nation which lies between two very powerful countries, and is ultimately split in half by, and then absorbed into, those two very powerful neighbors. The tiny nation, like the VOL and VOD, would lose its shared common culture and specific identity(s), and would be relegated to indistinct geographic areas of the two powerful nations. Poland in 1939 may be close to such an example.