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Why do white southerners love to inbreed?


During the clayton tonwnley speech scene it said the extras were actual native southerners. You can clearly tell from the way they look that they have undergone a severe form of inbreeding. There was enough mutations in their genes that you could actually see it in the deformed faces. Why do white people love to inbreed so much?

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I honestly don't know. Maybe because they're so damned ugly, they can't get anyone else, so they settle for people that are already living in their same environment.

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It's not just the southern U.S. English and Scotch-Irish crackers, but many rural communities in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, and much of the Middle East. The British monarchy is full of it.

Yeah, I remember those faces. A horsey-faced woman with rhinestone glasses, the sweaty fat faced man, the pudgy woman with a tear rolling down her face when Clayton gave his speech. And a little girl applauding his speech, which was the scariest of all!

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You know it's statements like that show just what an idiotic person you are.

..and maybe you should check out the rest of the world. There are many other peoples that inbreed. Look at the British Royal Family for one.. Heck, look at the Middle-Eastern populations with their arranged marriages (and most of them are to relatives..).

Yah, I will say the people in that crowd weren't exactly shining examples of beauty, but that in no way, shape, or form meant they were inbred.

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It's not just the British royal family, it's ALL royal and aristocratic families, past and present (Sweden, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Austria, Germany, just to name a few), and, going "down on the ladder", middle class and rural class. It was just the most common thing to do, first cousins, second, uncles, nieces, etc etc.

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It's not just the British royal family, it's ALL royal and aristocratic families, past and present (Sweden, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Austria, Germany, just to name a few), and, going "down on the ladder", middle class and rural class. It was just the most common thing to do, first cousins, second, uncles, nieces, etc etc.


And people from New Jersey!!

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With a stable population in a rural area most people are fourth-cousins. So it is with such people as the Old Order Amish in southern Michigan and northern Indiana. But that level of 'inbreeding' isn't so dangerous.

More significantly the film-makers did everything possible to make sure that the people of Mississippi were in no way glamorized. White people were cast as racist brutes; black people were cast as helpless victims. White or black, Mississippians of the early 1960s had to be shown with little make-up. If one were casting a movie set in Cleveland at the time one could show people looking their best. Makeup was used to a minimum, which partly reflects the religious attitudes of the South at the time.

Hollywood movies usually try to make people look their best. This one breaks the norm for good reason.

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Why do Blacks Inbreed --- Everywhere??? N,S,E,W, Big cities little fg towns???

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