Sometimes on DU posters ridicule groups of people who are "inbred", usually small groups in rural

[raccoon]

areas.

However, don't let it be forgot that over hundreds of years, royal families and nobles in Europe
married relatives. Queen Victoria married her first cousin. Queen Elizabeth II married her cousin too. (Wikipedia says
she's Prince Philip's second cousin once removed).

It ain't just a lower-class thang. I'm not recommending it, mind you. Just sayin'.

[cthulu2016]

1. And because the bloodlines of the aristocracy are so well

documented, historically, they provided us our first mathematical understanding of the occurrence of certain genetic conditions. (Like hemophilia or color blindness.)

[JNelson6563]

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[leveymg]

2. The very rich and the very poor are more alike than the middle-class.

Both groups tend to have high rates of alcoholism and substance abuse, work habits that make them unfit for productive employment, and untreated or misdiagnosed mental disorders.

When they're rich they're "eccentric", when they're poor they're likely to end up dead or in jail.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. But inbreeding is impossible!

Didn't that intellectual giant Steve King (R-Dumbfuckistan) just say girls couldn't get pregnant from incest?

[raccoon]

5. I stand corrected! LOL nt

[snooper2]

6. Fortunately the royals grew out of it..

Not the same can be said for Jo Ann who had a kid that looks just like it's uncle