--- star.matrix at verizon.net wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 3/15/02 -0600, Daniel Davies wrote:
> fine for you. but, as far as i know, you haven't
> called them inbred and
> blamed it on their sexual and breeding habits.
> furthermore, any sane person
> knows that incest does not occur more frequently in
> rural areas or among
> the poor and working class.
You can be inbred without commiting incest. Maybe this is a British/European thing, but there are villages parts of Britain still where the breeding pool is very small and generations of the same family have been living there for many hundreds, maybe a thousand years. In certain parts of the Fenlands this was noticable. Its improved in the C20th - a village that a friend of mine grew up near, had an unusual number of village idiots, for example - coincidentally the majority of the families had one of two family names. Inbreeding doesn't necessarily lead to degeneracy, but it isn't terribly healthy either.
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