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Friday, March 17, 2006

AntiSouthern Bigotry and Inbreeding

Last night on George Noory a man from the Boston area called in with a
message to Southerners. He's a Buchananite, and said he's constantly
sticking up for Southerners whenever they're spoken of in contempt
which in his region is a lot. Either he was semicoherent, or I was semi
asleep, but the message I got from him was that Southerners should
a)back a real conservative for a change instead of frauds, and b)tell
their young adults to sit this war out, i.e., don't have them join the
military. And the lesson I gleaned from the military bit was a)Southerners
sign up disproportionately, b) this war/these wars against Iraq and Iran
are terrible mistakes, and c) a substantial number of fellow Americans
don't appreciate the sacrifice of Southerners for "freedom" or the "flag" or
whatever. And they disdain the culture and values that encourage such
sacrifice.
The general sense I got from the caller is he viewed Southerners as a
noble and valiant people who have picked the wrong leader in George W.
Bush. That Bush is not their friend, or anybody's friend. Most leaders in
the Southern Movement have figured that out, but not so the Southern
people as a whole. Not that they're to be disproportionately blamed for
this; a lot of nonSouthern states went for Bush in both elections.
The most striking point, however, is the contempt the caller reported for
Southerners and Southern culture. He was almost telling Southerners,
"don't sacrifice your lives to protect us, because most northerners will
hate you anyway."

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While I'm not a Buchananite, I'm thankful I heard this caller. He's
essentially correct.
And that reminds me of another thing. I've been a lifelong "northerner,"
always residing north of I80 (and I think, although I'm not sure, that I70
is the border). I've spent very little time down South, and have met very
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few genuine Southerners in person. Me sticking up for Southerners is like

the typical limousine liberal sticking up for blacks they've never seen.
That said, there's one misconception I had, about everyone from West
Virginians to Alabamans. One of the constant jokes about Southerners is
the inbreeding, which creates dumbasses. I always assumed that the
incident of cousinmarriage was greatly exagerrated. I may have erred in
that, but only because I erred in what people mean by cousin.
"Cousin" to me means my first cousin the children of my parent's
siblings, so when I heard of Southerners engaging in cousin marriage, I
thought of first cousins marrying. I was very impressionable, having heard
the definition of "cousin" beginning at the age of four, and always thinking
that that when anyone said "cousin" they really and only meant "first
cousin." I learned what "cousin onceremoved" was, and what "second
cousin" meant. I know several cousins and "cousins onceremoved" quite
well and love them very much, and there are plenty of others I don't
know quite as well. I haven't knowingly seen a second cousin in twenty
years, and have never knowingly met a third cousin. I must have
hundreds if not thousands of them. The chances of me meeting, falling in
love with, and marrying one of them (especially if they are once, twice,
or three times removed) by accident is improbable, but not impossible.
Would our offspring be genetic freaks? Highly unlikely.
In a post last week, Steve Sailer told us the truth about Southern cousin
marriage. They were largely more ancestrally remote marriages than
between first cousins, and even when it involved more distantly related
cousins, that was mainly due to the constraints of transportion in remote
areas. And innovations such as the automobile pretty much put a stop to
it people had the mobility to find unrelated mates.
The latest Sailer post gets right to the heart: race is a geneological
question. It's a question of inbreeding. Quoting Alex Shoumatoff:
"If we could only get into God's memory, we would find that
eighty per cent of the world's marriages have been with at
least second cousins," the British social theorist Robin Fox
told me recently.

So Southerners in the USA continued this when they claimed hardtoget

to homesteads. Big deal. As I said, I could marry a second cousin at the
drop of the hat, because, not knowing who she was, I wouldn't know that
it's like, totally gross.
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And this makes me wonder, how many other northerners assume that
when people say "cousin marriage" they mean "first cousin marriage?" I
confess I thought that that was more prevalent in the South than it really
was.

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I think it all depends on what we mean by the words we say. If I knew

that most cousin marriages in the South were between second or third
cousins, or cousins many times removed, I would have thought, "what's
the big deal? That's normal." But because I thought "cousin marriage"
meant "first cousin marriage" I was inclined to think, "Eeewwwww! Yuck!"
I wonder how many other northerners have, like me, thought the same
thing, that cousin marriage meant first cousin marriage? And so
misjudged its frequency in the South?
I have no idea. But if much of antiSouthern bigotry has to do with the
presumption that generations of inbreeding has produced a white race of
idiots, we should reexamine that prejudice closely. In almost all cases,
the same charges antiSouthern bigots throw at Southerners can be
thrown right back at the accusers that they have an ancestral history
with a lot of cousins marrying.
In other words, Southerners are normal human beings. Deal with it.
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2 comments:
Vache Folle 6:31 AM PST
Charges of incest come with the territory when you are rural.
Newfoundlanders get this treatment, as well as Southerners. It's not
true, but that is not the point.
We Southerners are, on average, less well educated and less
sophisticated than our counterparts in other regions, and this is
mainly the legacy of relative poverty. We have a martial streak in
our "culture" that facilitates military service. Also, we don't have as
many other options in the job market, so military service is often a
good start and a chance for more schooling. We are raised with a
more backward, fundamentalist strain of Christianity and are easily
misled. Our stupidity is is culturally determined, not a consequence
of inbreeding.
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meldina55 9:08 PM PDT

You are mistaken. In the 1930s the federal government had to act
because of the serious inbreeding In the South. It was so bad that
congress held hearings to discuss the health implications to the nation
since so many southerners were moving to northern states. I live in
the south. Many people here are very intelligent but a majority of
white people in the south are dimwits .sorry but that is the truth
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