--- Hank <henry at inkworkswell.com> wrote:
There are other, old time rural Vermonters,
> cataloged in a fictional
> book, title of which completely escapes me, who are
> much like the
> Appalachian poor -- and the target of genocidal
> eugenics attacks early in
> the 20th century, in the classic pattern: the white
> middle class saw its
> birth rate declining but saw the po' peeps fucking
> like rabbits -- the
> degenerates, drunkards, drug addicts, and layabouts
> ('coz they lived a
> task-oriented rural life, not that of the
> time-oriented industrial life).
> It's all, fascinatingly, documented here:
> http://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/
>
Don't forget that that's where the Fungi from Yuggoth have their base!
Seriously, somebody must have done a class analysis somewhere of H.P. Lovecraft's depictions of rural New Englanders as almost universally inbred, evil cretins.
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