"Genetic disorder caused skin to turn blue"....
I thought that was blamed on colloidal silver?
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'Well, hell's bells, son. <spit> If'n they ain't good enough for their own kin, they can't be good enough for ours!' cue banjo music...Of course, none of the northeastern elite would ever inbreed...(like a Hapsburg!)...excepting along monetary lines...
insert pearl clutching church lady vapors hereThat there inbreeding's a white trash hick thing, right?
Up nawth they just do the deformed
mutant intellectual thing up there in New England (and it shows), but their last names often aren't changed if they wed, and there's a bunch of hyphenating going on, so I'm not sure how they keep track who is who's git.
I reckon that's why they hire genie-ologists to tell whose bottle got rubbed on which side before the 'wishes' popped out.
Folks out here in the boonies may not have had as many prospects to choose from, but they generally avoided marrying too close. White folks had their churches to sort it, and family Bibles to record it. For the
(capital 'n') Natives, it was pow-wows where youngsters could meet someone from another band (another
Tribe was often considered a bridge too far).
My wife's Grandma told her, "If you meet a good looking guy from around here, never mind. Chances are he's a cousin." But she would have likely disowned her for marrying a Sioux...
(I think it helped to be from far away.
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