> 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.
This isn't just a European thing, add; the south shore of Nova Scotia, including a place called Port Mouton (a bilingual joke there), so much so that studies of suspected genetic disorders are done there because the gene pool is relatively free of external DNA so the probability of random error in genetic screening is reduced; the Goler family of South Mountain in the Annapolis Valley (family motto 'If she's not good enough for family.......'), the Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick and just to show it's not a Maritime phenomenon, the Mennonite colonies of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, and Lanark county in the Ottawa River Valley, where Disney recently made the movie 'Honey I F***ed the Kids!"
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