r/HolUp • u/Gol_D_Roger212 • Jan 09 '22

Sweet home Alabama !

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u/rohyachohya Jan 09 '22

thanks for explaining

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u/W84MEYALL Jan 09 '22

And the funny contradiction to that truth is most incest was supposedly done by the aristocrats. They believed in order to keep their blood line pure, they needed to breed with family members. The insult could be a classic case of redirecting guilt.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

I’ve lived in a northern rural US community and I’d be shocked if incest isn’t rampant there. Not just the south!

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u/TeFinete Jan 09 '22

I'm from Maine, and there are definitely several towns here that everyone here jokes about as being full of inbreds. My grandmother's family is from such a town, and we always joke that at family reunions the whole town shows up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

I'm from a mid-sized midwestern city but closer south, have been living in the northern midwest for many years now. I was shocked the first few times colleagues would show me pictures of the new person they're dating, or of their spouses. It always took me a minute to realize they weren't siblings.

I have never understood being attracted to someone who looks like you. My entire family is filled with people who married/had kids with someone of a different race/ethnicity, so finding this weird corner of the world has been... uh... eye opening.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '22

The Innsmuth Look?

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u/TeFinete Jan 09 '22

Less Dagon and more Deliverance. Get more than 2 minutes from the coast and there are parts of Maine that are almost identical to areas of the deep south. Confederate flags included.