Hicks & Inbreds

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At 08:34 PM 3/15/02 +0000, Cian O'Connor wrote:
>  --- Daniel Davies <dsquared at al-islam.com
>wrote:
> > but the shudder of revulsion which causes
> > urban leftists to use
> > the "inbreds" slur is based in a reality about rural
> > life.
>
>In the Fenlands round Cambridge, England there's a
>village with about 400 people living in it in which
>there were two family names. I don't know how long
>they had been inbreeding, but you could see the
>results. Nasty - though probably no nastier than the
>remains of some "noble" families.

what do you mean by nasty? what happens when there is inbreeding?