The Most Inbred State in America

The United States of America contain many inbred states: New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama. Many of these states are known to contain proportions of an inbred population, yet these states are by no means the most inbred in the USA.
Instead, Kentucky ranks as the most inbred state in the country. In this video, we break down how inbred Kentucky is, an example of an inbred family from Kentucky, and more importantly, the main reasons as to why Kentucky ranks as the most inbred state in the United States of America.

[@shyhistorian]

Hi all. Unfortunately Part 3 does not contain sound after uploading, due to an unfounded copyright concern. This is in dispute, but for the time being, this segment of the video does not contain any sound. Apologies.

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

Was it a tune that goes... Digga ding ding ding ding ding ding ding....?

[@juri_xiii9977]

Well, you got my attention with this video nonetheless. And You got at least a new Subscriber. Extremely interesting topic. And an Important one, for sure..!

[@SnarkNSass]

I decided not to type a joke. Congratulate me, it's a good thing 😁😆🥸

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

@@SnarkNSass The emojis tell a different story. 👺

[@SnarkNSass]

@@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left it's a good thing that I paused and thought it through... Cool 🎭

[@SamBroadway]

I better hurry up and watch this before it gets deleted again

[@MarcelNL]

Whut? Videos on this channel get deleted?

[@besetterobinson7468]

Agreed

[@JessicaMiller-pc4dj]

I did not know that 🥺.

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Seemed to cut off when I least expected it to 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@JessicaMiller-pc4dj]

@@luiszuluaga6575 It did for me too and just after I read these comments 🤔.

[@marlene1964]

I lived in Kentucky for 30 years on and off and you have no idea how many kids are molested by their own family members and they started at the age of 6 which was my niece and it started with me at the age of 9. The kids are afraid to tell on their fathers due to the threats and making us terrified if we didn’t do what he wanted ( he is now deceased) he would either beat on my mom or my brothers so something needs to give. Those of us who has been through this can smell a predator out 98% of the time so this needs to stop. You are on the right track so good work.

[@ettaplace6716]

Damn right It’s got to stop ! Soo sorry 😢

[@peacefulpossum2438]

That’s horrible. My heart goes out to you. But incest isn’t exclusive to poor backwoods hollers. It goes on all over the country on all economic levels.

[@christineperez7562]

This is Mitch's state

[@christineperez7562]

This is a republican state. Yuck

[@ac8907]

@mararel. Ask help to associations.

[@DavidRexGlenn]

Was driving through Henderson, KY when I saw a poster-board sign tacked to a telephone. It was pointing out where to turn in order to attend the Gibson - Gibson wedding. Laughed all the way to Waverly

[@BDESal]

Sweet home Alabama

[@senorpepper3405]

That's surprising. I consider western Kentucky pretty normal.

[@guessundheit6494]

As they say about Kentucky, "five million people, fifty last names". Don't forget to include Pennsylvania and Utah where the amish cult and mormon cult are. Yank religion has a LOT to do with their straight line family trees.

[@mosessupposes2571]

Yank religion? What is Yank?

[@PML720]

A yankee

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

​@@PML720 The Amish or Dutch Country came from Germany it did not start in The United States of America

[@PML720]

@@jaiyabyrd4177 I didn't say that i did now did I?

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

@@PML720 Yes you did in your incorrect response. Stop lying ‼️

[@TerryLawrence001]

When your family tree is a telephone pole.

[@radbabs2000]

Watering down the gene pool.

[@Lstar07]

The audio cuts off at 7:20 🔊

[@RHR-221b]

*Pardon?*

[@deaodaggi]

same here

[@jastrina]

Same for me

[@pjperdue1293]

Yes, why??

[@darksu6947]

Damn gubment!

[@orangeapples3]

Among other things, this video explains how Mitch McConnell could still be in office.

[@miapdx503]

😂😂😂 touche'

[@rogernull6151]

I lived in Perry County (Hazard) briefly in 1982. Although I grew up in Cincinnati, a mere 4 hour drive away, it was like a different world! I worked with a guy who had obvious signs of being in-bred. There were entire 'hollers' (valleys) where people all shared the same last name. A big problem is that much of this 'breeding' goes on between family members outside of marriage. Incest has been a real issue.

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

Is Hazard County the same lication that was depicted in the Dukes of Hazard ❓

[@outdoorlife5396]

@@jaiyabyrd4177 No Dukes was in GA, I think. Hazard is a coal mining town in eastern KY.

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

@@outdoorlife5396 Oh yeah Thanks

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

That sounds accurate. I was born in Cincinnati but my mom’s family have deep roots in Eastern Kentucky and I can assure you that practically everyone down there is related to some extent. I’ve even found a good number of loops in my own family tree and even my grandparents were distantly related through a few branches.

[@DeviousKnitter70]

In my state, they are very cogniziant of birth defects of inbreeding . Doctors report this to State Health Department and then Social Workers, and they are investigated. The one area was a small, poor, mountain town. People there rarely left the area to find mates. They still have issues, but it has gotten better, when more jobs came in the area, and the population increased. They also educated the families about how this affected their children.

[@davidtrindle6473]

Education is so important

[@GaryEtheridge-d5n]

Don't kiss your Sister like that

[@Lisa-mw6te]

When an area is isolated and impoverished, it stands to reasons that everyone is cousins. My mother was from the NC mountains and proud that her parents were NOT related. 😅

[@hackman669]

God bless her 😂

[@peacefulpossum2438]

The isolation of mountainous regions certainly has a lot to do with it.

[@christineperez7562]

That's not an excuse.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

@@christineperez7562 No one is saying it’s an excuse. It’s a reason. It was more understandable in the past when people didn’t understand genetics and transportation was primitive. For example, Kentucky has a whopping 120 counties because the county seat was to be no more than a day’s horseback ride away. Even if people weren’t marrying siblings or first cousins, the gene pool might be very limited. It is still a problem in many Amish communities.

[@terereynolds698]

I can’t imagine ever doing anything sexual with my brothers or my cousins, it’s just so morally wrong, not to mention the birth defects their kids could have, the horrific taunts and bullying their kids could face, and how do you explain, oh my dad is also my grandpa.

[@lunarnote28]

I have like a 5th cousin who hit on me after my dad died and I had to tell him I ain't into inbreeding

[@venomshot2815]

The birth defects and future messed up generations is definitely the worst part. Their classmates wouldn't really know if they're inbred or not

[@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid]

Brother and sister I can see calling it morally wrong. That's not the kind of love siblings should have. But cousins, especially 2nd+ and cousins once/twice removed? If they never knew each other growing up, maybe met at Xmas a few times at most, then who's to say it's wrong if as adults they connect- so long as they don't procreate? I know what the answer will be... it's immoral to have sex unless procreation is possible. And thus sex is only for married couples. That's where the morality creeps in. In a country where contraception is a sin, and everyone ought to marry as virgins and then discover their sexuality once they're locked into an unbreakable bond with God.

[@jodiuhron1979]

That about describes the Habsburgs!

[@Jessseven-m5d]

Kids are cruel, but in such rural and isolated communities... The kids they'd go to school with would probably be inbred too. What's there to make fun of?

[@Jliske2]

I have family from Perry County, Kentucky. Yes, my ancestors were hella inbred.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

probably old traditions....i mean isn't kentucky kinda stuck in the 50s, baptist churches, "INBRED OKAY but two guys kissing is an abomination" kinda thing

[@ItsDaJax]

Depends on where in the state.

[@hackman669]

Do they merry first cousins? Anything over 5 times removed is normal according to the net. 😂

[@ItsDaJax]

@@hackman669 Well in the video it states it's illegal to marry 1st cousins- it is, you can marry close as third. I don't know anything about merrying cousins, though.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

That’s an inaccurate generalization. There are towns all over the state passing laws to protect lgbtq people despite our backward legislature.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@peacefulpossum2438 then it's the state and tbf even satire has a take on that so it's not a generalization, get your facts right

[@lauralott2741]

I’m not sure if you ever looked into Scotland? This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. I discovered this just doing ancestry work for 20 years. The Border families mix together, the Highland families mix together and same with the lowland families. It’s a small country. Lots of isolated areas, and 1000 years ago the population was much smaller. The Scots and Irish have a lot of neurological diseases, some known and some not.

[@deepwaters7242]

That's really interesting. Is there an article or video about this? Like, accurate?

[@elizabethowens8548]

Yep, in my patwrnal and maternal family, Scott and Scott Irish alot of issues with autism and other metabolic anomalies

[@lauralott2741]

Not that I know of. I just found when I was working on my own family tree that I would end up at the same families over and over again. Up to 10 times in some cases. I know Edinburgh University just completed the DNA Scotland project. They were looking for rare genetic diseases. They stated that Scots are probably all cousins, twice over! I laughed and said “ at least!”. I have multiple autoimmune disorders. Dysautonomia. Both my children and my grandchild have autism, ADHD, sensory issues, dyslexia and autoimmune disorder and dysautonomia. It goes back about 5 generations that we know of.

[@lauralott2741]

Yes same in my family. Autism goes back 5 generations that we know of. Autoimmune disorders, neurological issues, etc….Im 70% Scottish, almost 30 % Irish with a couple % of Welsh and Norse Viking. My family suffers from one or more specific syndromes I suspect, but it has not yet been diagnosed. Are chromosomes are all normal.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

That is interesting since a lot of Scots settled in Appalachia. It’s all part of the same mountain range.

[@canuck9199]

At 7:20 the sound disappears completely

[@jonshellmusic]

Yep, audio stops mid sentence and is gone for the rest of the video.

[@marialloyd9527]

And before that at kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3SphKqha5eilas they show a completely irrelevant stock image of a Covid-19 blood test tube as he talks about DNA.

[@johnburnside7828]

Well, that explains why they keep re-electing Mitch McConnell!

[@tomniebrzydowski3759]

My exact thoughts!😂

[@brookieb538]

What happened to the audio at 7:20 ?

[@RHR-221b]

*Pardon?*

[@brookieb538]

Lol ha ha very funny 😸@@RHR-221b

[@anastasia10017]

I worked with an indian guy whose family was very inbred and only arranged marriages within the immediate family. They were arranging for him to marry his first cousin or his niece. Gotta say, he was not the brightest bulb. In the US, I have heard that some states allow marriage between first cousins but only when they are past child bearing age -- so basically, you can marry your first cousin when you are in your mid fifties.

[@lurji]

india moment

[@Miloradsfriend]

In many states one can just marry their first cousin. Though it seldom happens since much of the country is far less isolated than it was.

[@Agnar669]

There are pockets of inbreeding all across the US and Canada...I lived in a small religious community in B.C., Canada...as a small child, I remember my grandmother leaning over and whispering into my ear not to criticise anyone, as they were all related! Never did again, no questions asked!

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

😮

[@starri9103]

@@NAT-turners-Revenge Quite possibly a polygamist group.

[@ac8907]

@Agnar669. 🫢

[@jeffreyhughes7107]

I was born in West Virginia, Raleigh County and grew up in Kanawha {Kuh-nah-whu} County. I spent my summers and lived my adult life in southeastern North Carolina. My mother re married and lived in Grayson, Kentucky (eastern Kentucky). I said all that to say that I never met someone (to my knowledge) who was inbred or married to their cousin in those areas. I have, however, worked with a lady from New York City that openly admitted that she dated her first cousin. 🤷‍♂️. A very nice video but just two points: In the US, we say the name of the county followed by the word county. There are two exceptions - Louisiana has “parishes” and Alaska has “burroughs”. My second point is that West Virginia didn’t exist until 1863 when it seceded from the state of Virginia during the civil war. I know it’s a bit pedantic but I felt that a person who enjoys history and different cultures, like yourself, would appreciate some insider nuances. Thank you for the video!

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

" I have, however, worked with a lady from New York City that openly admitted that she dated her first cousin." Was that a Mrs. Giuliani? Rudi, you bad boy.

[@jeffreyhughes7107]

@@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left No... her last name is Eichenstein or was, I haven't seen her in 25 years. A colleague just informed me that she was/is married to her cousin.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

My family is from Lewis County, and I don’t know of anyone who was married to a close relative. I was hit on by cousins from Illinois when I was a teen though.

[@beanteam2217]

Grayson is not in eastern Ky.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

@@beanteam2217 What would you consider it?

[@SulfurAstarothVixenIIIXXIII]

I think a coworker of mine comes from an inbred family… using things I’ve learned from your videos, especially the ones about modern-day inbreeding, the amount of similarities their family shares with those families in regards to facial abnormalities, is startling. And not to mention, I see their family more than I actually see them. I’ve seen all they’re kids… they each have similar facial features. Like the youngest, has a very hard time with speech, and is missing several teeth… and he’s gotta be at least 12. I am in no way saying this because I’m disgusted, judgmental, or anything like that… they’re still people after all. It’s just… when you have knowledge in what inbreeding looks like, and you see it in your own community, it’s just… unnerving? I don’t know. I don’t quite know how to explain it…

[@suzannehaigh4281]

Happens a great deal with families of muslin faith.

[@SulfurAstarothVixenIIIXXIII]

@@suzannehaigh4281 this family ain’t Muslim, as far as I’m aware…

[@StuftBanana]

This is what isolation and years of science denial leads to.

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

That is why insest is frowned on. We have come to appreciate, over the centuries, that recessive cells can mutate into other strands of DNA. it's like a recursive bit error in a large computer program, created by a virus or a worm. Admittedly, centuries back, we did not know why, we just recognised the effects. We all have our, unique, individual DNA and we all know how babies are made, dividing cells through DNA replication. So we are all different but some of us are more different than the others. As we are all different, do we have ranking from best to worse? Humanity does not do it that way so, no, I don't think so. Humanity likes to simplify, to label types, to easily identify, tall, short, fat, skinny, black, Mexican, woman, Man. It makes life easier if you don't have to know everybody, you just recognise their type. Fresh DNA preferable to compounding bit errors. The fresher the DNA, the greater chance of developing progressive genes rather than regressive. Hope that helps... ;-)

[@carnifaxx]

@@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left for me, one of the disturbing facts is that people had to be aware that this caused it... and still did it. From the village my father came from, I know it can be avoided, there were many families with the same surnames, but I made an extensive family tree for most of them and they were surprisingly not as much related to each other as I was afraid they might be. E.g. when my own grandparents married, they had of course 4 parents and from them 3 had the same surname (incl. maiden surnames). But for the marriage of 1953, these 3 families with the same surname connected somewhere in 1780's, which is not bad, I think. My father also told me there were "prejudices" against certain combinations of families of different surnames, but they didn't know where that came from - but during the research, when I saw one particular "forbidden" combination happening, I noticed they had very high child mortality rates even for that time, in one particular family they had 6 stillbirths out of 12 (recorded) pregnancies and only one of their children actually survived, I think it was the eldest one. My suspicion is that that may have been caused by the Rh factor incompatibility, but I have of course no proof for that. (But this is OT for inbreeding, I just wanted to point out that even though people didn't know the "science" and explanation they must have known the overall cause, because they saw the results... unless they were already so inbred it prevented them from common sense :D )

[@pharmgirl1955]

Would love to see you do a video on the inbreeding among Amish communities.

[@DanSk451]

Well, in 2019 Kentucky made bestiality against the law. And there was opposition to the legislation. That can’t help.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

Hm, gotta wonder about some of our state legislators 🤔

[@4_nikk_attor]

I like it! (NOT BESTIALITY) BUT ITS PROBABLY BETTER THAN THEIR SISTERS. 🐄🐐🐑😘

[@chrismatheson4376]

This video cut off part of the way through. Up to that cut off I was enjoying it as I found it informative because the the info presented as fact had clearly been researched and was backed up by stats.

[@jugaloking69dope58]

look at the pinned comment above. copy right thing.

[@hollyccam]

If you are from a small town in the US and have have a long family history in that same town going back several generations, then you are probably related to all the other people with long family histories in that town. Usually that doesnt result in marrying a first cousin, but maybe someone with a common ancestor a century ago.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

Exactly. I’ve done my family tree back to Europe. There’s no first or second cousin marriages, the most common names in the county appear somewhere along that tree.

[@Dabhach1]

The county referred to is PERRY County. The county seat is -- believe it or not -- Hazard. Which may go a long way to explain Luke, Beau and Cousin Daisy.

[@anonUK]

The most inbred county in Britain is no longer Norfolk, Somerset or anywhere in Wales- but West Yorkshire. Of course, West Yorkshire has more than its share of isolated hilltop farms and Appalachian type villages- but Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire all have these and their rates are much lower. As in neighbouring Lancashire and in the metro counties of Manchester and Merseyside (Liverpool), most of the inbreeding takes place because of first-cousin marriages among South Asians, not sheep farmers in the back of beyond.

[@MarcelNL]

It's good that this channel exists if you're interested in how common cousinboinking is! ;-) Fortunately my son is not very inbred; the family tree quickly finds roots in The Netherlands, Spain, The Philippines and Ghana, and also Germany if you dig a bit deeper.

[@ZomBeeQueeen]

0.2 % isn’t what I would say “common”

[@faronrich9381]

I love your videos. My mother is from WV, and I have noticed in her family that there are many, 2 brothers/2 sisters, marriages That scenario makes the children of those couples genetically closer than normal first cousins. In fact, the children should be considered half-siblings instead of first cousins, meaning any second-cousin marriages aren't genetically second-cousin marriages. I don't know if you have looked into this common marriage dynamic in some locations. (Also, please consider doing a video on the Filles du Roi and the French-Canadian founders' effect.)

[@LoLoLifeinFlorida]

My mom My uncle Both siblings My dad My aunt Both siblings Mom married my dad Uncle married my dad's sister I tell my cousins we are literally 100% related. 😂

[@carnifaxx]

in our country (Central Europe), this was quite common... I think one of the reasons is that they were able to save a decent amount of money when they married the same day (as often happened). Also in some areas there was a custom to divide the land into smaller pieces for each child, so such marriage meant they were able to go for an agreement that allowed them to have a bigger field in one piece instead of half from one family and half from another one somewhere else (if you understand what I mean).

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Where 2 Sister's marry 2 Brother's that is actually known as "double first cousins", nothing to do with inbreeding

[@nik7183]

​@@carnifaxxThat's interesting and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Their offspring would be double first cousins, which only becomes "inbreeding" if any of those offspring bred. As a rule, double second cousins should be kept in separate jars.

[@kumaranvij]

My sound cut out at 7:20.

[@ItIsJustDucky]

Newport , Vermont has a town of 800...theres a mental health facility to deal with the issue. Maine has some interesting situations as well.

[@mm-yt8sf]

did the audio terminate early? "especially with the recessive gene..." seems to be the last words spoken

[@bridaw8557]

If you notice, Kentucky as well as several other states in the top have significant areas in the Appalachian mountain range. These areas have been historically cut off from the rest of the state as far as employment, resources, education, and health care. The people have gotten stuck in a cycle they see as impossible to get out from

[@p.istaker8862]

Watching this has given me the urge to learn to play the banjo !

[@OrioleBeagle]

When Conan O'Brien had his family tree done. It was found that there was a lot of inbreeding in his family in the 1800s.

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

We gotta switch all the Alabama incest memes to Kentucky I guess

[@SnowyFox1831]

Im from Alabama.

[@vivalarazausarmyvet4453]

Meh. I'm sure it's common on all red states.

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

​@@vivalarazausarmyvet4453😅

[@hackman669]

I'm sure Texas doesn't have much of this problem. Lots of diversity and big state. Mississippi might have issues😅

[@JuiceDrinker-gi3qv]

​​@@SnowyFox1831Found an inbred culprit. 😂

[@NickLea]

I haven't seen your other video that you mentioned (about countries) but inbreeding - or endogamy - certainly happened in the early colonial times in the USA and also later in some areas. This wasn't always just things like first cousin marriages though, you get similar effects when there are multiple 2nd cousin etc marriages throughout several generations. This was a very real thing in the early colonial times and also later on for certain groups, such as Germans who immigrated to the Mid West. Other groups who show similar effects are French Canadians, Cajuns, Puerto Ricans and Ashkenazi Jews. It really shows up when people start tracing their DNA. As a Brit, when I look at something like the Ancestry website and find another person that I have a DNA match with then there will typically be five or ten shared matches that we have in common. For people who have links to endogamous communities, such as Ashkenazi Jews, they will typically have many hundreds of shared matches in common, even more than a thousand, with that other person. This doesn't, necessarily, come about through first cousin marriages but rather repeated second cousin marriages over many generations. This also applies to people who trace their ancestry back to the early colonial days of the US in places like Maryland and Virginia. I recall somebody who has colonial ancestry from Maryland and Virginia through both parents told me that they had many DNA matches that, when traced back, are distantly related to both of his parents and many more that have a DNA match to one parent but a paper trail (birth certificates etc) to the other.

[@tracyo39shea]

Sound stops at 7:23

[@deltatango6793]

I once watched a video about the isolated-ness of WV and KY and how it has impacted their accents … that they still have hints of British speaking patterns.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

As a born and raised Kentuckian who has always traveled all over the state including the extreme eastern areas in the Appalachias bordering Virginia and Tennessee I can honestly say this is 100% accurate. Most of the people in Perry County live in areas where the sun barely shines for 3hrs a day and people have a tendency to not leave those hollers for months at a time.

[@ShitterMcGavin]

Some of those hollers go 4 or 5 generations deep and everybody down there is related in some way.

[@Andrés-f6l3l]

I knew someone who moved to Kentucky and said that it had much less inbreeding and that he thought it is was because it was warmer and people could travel farther to find a wife. I have heard of states not letting whites marry blacks but not being able to merry your cousin just sounds even more racist

[@sarahjane4908]

How do they get food? Where do they work?

[@ShitterMcGavin]

@sarahjane4908 They grow and raise their own food for the most part. They might send the person who can drive/write to Walmart down in town a few times a year. There may be 1 or 2 of the clan that do venture out into society and work, but for the most part, they stay put and draw that gov'ment muney.

[@BillyIson-d3y]

you should be Bullshitter, spreading lies like this @@ShitterMcGavin

[@LairdKenneth]

Well, yes my Kentucky grandparents were cousins, but that was over 100 years ago. My parents were not even from the same state. So there doesn't seem to be many problems as a result. My worst problem wS that my folks divorced and mom married a drinking man, who was verbally abusive. So I was literally a red haired step child and was treated just like that. So alcohol is the worst in my view.

[@Kanary-Berry]

Mississippi didn't make the top six? We have all the worst statistics... we have to do better. Our reputation is on the line.

[@misspat7555]

Well, you done gone and outlawed first cousin marriages! There’s yer problem right there! How y’all gonna get them funny-lookin’ faces and funnier ways of tryin’ t’ talk if yer Ma-Maws can’t be the same gosh/darned person?!? 👨🏻‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾

[@mariekatherine5238]

It’s not all of KY, but easternmost counties where many people rarely leave their holler. It’s less true now, but even in the 1970’s, I know of several people where sisters/brothers married sisters/brothers, more than one generation in a row. Genetically speaking, it’s like marrying your full sibling. I worked with a man who had a club foot and one of his sisters had a partial club foot. He had two brothers with low IQs, no particular diagnosis, but neither went beyond grade six. One just kept getting left back until he was 15 and he dropped out. The other gradually quit coming to school and nobody came looking for him. He last attended when around age 12. He was illiterate as an adult so far as doing anything but the most menial jobs. He worked for a time as a custodian’s assistant, but was mostly on welfare like most of the family. States should not allow cousin marriages at all, but nowadays, a lot of people don’t bother getting married. They just hook up and have kids. Short of forcible sterilization, like, eugenics, Nazis, I don’t see how it can be stopped.

[@msverde6292]

I'm born and raised in northern ky half my family is from eastern ky. I have red hair and a genetic blood condition bc of it. Not the fugate one though.

[@RHR-221b]

Good news, m: *You are not colour-blind?* Are you a banjo-player, accompanied with Lifelong Synaesthesia ... [Rhetorical.] *Blue Fugates* [Credit: Wikipedia] 'The Fugates, commonly known as the 'Blue Fugates' or the 'Blue People of Kentucky', are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.' [Much more available via Wikipedia.]

[@JuiceDrinker-gi3qv]

I feel sorry for you. It's crazy your people kept breeding knowing it wasn't okay. Smh. Are you Caucasian? I'm not trying to be funny knowing black people have done it too and still do, but there so genetically gone that they don't understand and can't comprehend the dangers of this. You can tell because the learning can't be learned as easily.

[@bobbylee9727]

When famous rock star Jerry Lee Lewis married his fourteen year old cousin around 1960, he turned a lot of his fans against him. He also made lots of his male fans look at their fourteen year old cousins and think: that girl sure is pretty...

[@carnifaxx]

I wanted to ask for quite a while, if there are some new statistics about differences between paperwork and actual paternity that were discovered due to the improvement and widespread of genetic genealogy? From what I know, there are only estimates of what percentage of children actually has a different father than legally stated, but I think genetic genealogy may have proofs for that - and is there a chance they may also find some kind of "source" of the mismatched paternity? E.g. I know about a family where there were rumours that the father abused his daughters and they were married just to cover that up (while it still continued!), but I just wonder how common it might have been to be assaulted by a family member... because then it may of course cause an "unknown" inbreeding and "inexplicable" health issues in next generations.

[@conqurr]

I was in a small town in Tennessee doing a Walmart audit, I swear 99% of the town was inbred. 99% of them had blonde hair and blue eyes and the other 1% had green eyes and red hair and when I said something to a worker there she said to me that everyone that lived there was cousins or siblings and they were proud of being inbred

[@robertsansone1680]

A man from Kentucky once told me, "That's my wife & sister over there". I told him, "Yeah, but there's only one woman over there"?

[@BDESal]

That’s some Alabama shit

[@robertsansone1680]

@@BDESal Well, now that I think about it, I think he was a Cajun.

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

My mom’s family are from Eastern Kentucky (my grandma was from Perry County and my grandad was originally from Salyersville) and I’ve found quite a number of loops in our family tree. This was especially prevalent on my grandads side of the family as his father was a product of many generations of cousin marriages. My great-grandfather was also a violent, abusive alcoholic who ended up murdering my great-grandmother during an outdoor church meeting after she couldn’t take it anymore and left him and took the kids. I often wonder if his shallow gene pool might’ve been a contributing factor to his violent and unstable behavior.

[@Charles-k9g5y]

Explains a lot about USA.

[@LaurenHinrichsen-op6gd]

Mhm. I'm from Ky originally. When I did my family tree you can guess how fucking surprised I was to learn that my maternal family from my great grandparents on back all intermarried cousins over and over. My great grandparents are third cousins.

[@RDA000]

Feel bad for this channel. Its legit and well researched but it only enters the algorythm when it talks about inbreeding.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

i mean it's not pro-inbreeding (if that's even a thing, sometimes you see and hear the most vile people)

[@liisahmanni]

​@@КГБКолДжорджКостанца This is a reminder that there is no mention of the channel being pro-inbreeding.

[@aubreythegachagirl130]

who else is from KY? I’ll go first i am!

[@bighoss8793]

Today most lovers meet on a dating app but in Kentucky they meet at family reunions.

[@BDESal]

Using the family reunion as speed dating 😂😂😂😂

[@JuiceDrinker-gi3qv]

Na, they met a grandmas house 😂

[@vyre43]

Up for 3 hours and already audio blocked at the end 😭

[@CyndiRoberts-m4s]

Happy new year dear thank you for your great stories and heres to another year of great videos.

[@KoRntech]

Not too shocking about rhe US, probably a good thing automobiles helped West Virginia come north into Ohio. Thankfully they mostly stay 50 miles south of NE Ohio but still theres an awful lot of Miller's around me and theyre all related.

[@jack4688]

So without further ado, lets watch the millionth advert KZbin has shoehorned in

[@slyknowledged]

"in county Perry" It's Perry county, cuz.

[@carolynsuedickens]

He is European. That is how it’s said in Ireland.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

It’s not how it’s said here, and his research should have shown him that.

[@RicksRoads]

Simple answer: When the chicken is that finger lickin' good, you don't care who's finger it is

[@urmamasmamasmama]

😂😂😂

[@rebekahdavis5935]

GROSS

[@lunarnote28]

I was born in perry county KY. I know this is true. On my bio dad's side if u look at his family tree the main 2 last names that got married repeatedly married each other. To be fair his family lived in a place that u could only get to on a donkey trail into like the late 40s. Beyond isolated.

[@kumaranvij]

West Virginia isn't on the East Coast. It is landlocked.

[@Deathwish777]

its because most people in KY live way out in the hills where the nearest store is 25 miles away and its a mom and pop store. the average grade level complete there was 5th grade. everyone knows everyone and everyone practically has had sex with everyone. everyone has a plate and straw somewhere in their house for snorting pills, but now even the hills is flooded with meth according to my cousins in KY. there is NOTHING to do but drugs and each other. i had many chances to do cousins, they were offering it up. couldn't bring myself to do it, couldn't go down that hole. i lived there for 6 years split into 3 years of time each. i joined the army after my 6th year and went to war just to get out of KY. cause once you find yourself there in the deep coal mining mountains, its hell getting out if you don't have money.

[@cincyspinqueen2066]

What an absolutely ignorant statement! All your information is based on your family living in Kentucky??!! Have you actually been here?? I guarentee in Louisville (where I grew up), Lexington, and Newport where I live now are large cities with every store you can think of within walking distance or five minutes minus traffic. Where I live, in Newport, the second Hoffbrahaus in the world was built (third after Germany and Las Vegas, Nevada). Louisville has the Kentucky Derby, the world's most famous horse race and the largest fireworks display in the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, you are young and do not understand the difference between what is valid and reliable research versus what your family tells you. The average grade level completed is nowhere near a fifth grade level here! The high school graduation completion rate for 1999 to 2020 was 90.9%. Post covid 2021 to 2022 it dropped (as most states did) to 90.1%. You do realize high school graduation is in twelfth grade, right? Meaning it is higher than fifth grade. I am posting links which has valid data from a reliable sources for you to view for reference. www.kyschoolreportcard.com/organization/20/school_accountability/graduation_rate/high_school_graduation?year=2022 www.kentuckyteacher.org/news/2020/10/kde-releases-2019-2020-school-report-card-data/#:~:text=The%20rate%20increased%20to%2092,%25%20and%2091.8%25%2C%20respectively. Maybe, your family is in a small town where what you have described is happening within a very small population. However, the highest population rates in Kentucky are in urban and immediate suburban areas. Therefore, you are speaking of a minority population rate. It gets very old hearing the "everyone is inbread, marry your cousin crap about my state" (actually it is a commonwealth). By the way, Tom Cruise grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. George Clooney grew up in Maysville, Kentucky. Johnny Depp grew up in Owensboro, Kentucky. They do not talk trash about Kentucky. I guess the lesson here is to not be a sheep, in your case. Perhaps, educating yourself could remedy this.

[@MagisterLeviathan]

You didn't say anything about the parent-child pairings... Why not them, is it too distasteful to you to even mention?

[@msshelley3919]

The audio cuts out near the end of the video.

[@suzannehaigh4281]

I am sure this would have been interesting if the audio did not just stop

[@RHR-221b]

*Pardon ... Audio?* 👂

[@suzannehaigh4281]

@@RHR-221b The sound went, I am sure that is audio, unless it is something else that has been changed.

[@kelliv2995]

I'd say I resent this, but who has the energy with everything else going wrong in the world ❤ (KY is as beautiful as Ireland & the people here are kind & welcoming)

[@tammyosier134]

I'm watching it from a historical perspective. It is very interesting!

[@panatypical]

This must mean you're well worth subscribing to. Just subbed.

[@tammyosier134]

Im rhunking too, that they also had large families, which means you could marry a distant cousin since you may not even know you're family.

[@bfaceb5149]

One thing Americans hate to hear is the Truth… Kentucky’s inbreeding is definitely in Eastern Kentucky, Appalachian…

[@nathanembry9245]

If we not suppose to judge 2 gays in a relationship, why judge 2 cousins? It's consenting adults and it doesn't affect me 1 bit. Plus the only imbred president was FDR and Eleanor (you would think if you gonna marry your cousin she would at least be attractive)

[@kylewells6871]

3 minutes in: me - "please don't be my family, please God."

[@你哦]

Why the shot of the Sydney Opera House?

[@Cocreatewithus]

Back in the late 1700s, my ancestor took his wife and kids and moved away from his home in the Shenandoah Valley to an empty frontier land, with one other family. They were the first ones there, and the only ones for decades. Because it was just the 2 families, the kids of each family had no choice but to marry each other. So, obviously, there was some inbreeding going on early on out of necessity, but once more people settled there, and when my ancestor moved to other, mildly populated places when the youngest ones were still kids, that problem resolved itself.

[@dougwendel3142]

I'm not so sure of that.

[@benjamingalloway1979]

I have to tell you as the son of someone who has 8 siblings who is from Tennessee this is why she found her future husband on a PenPal letter. She didn’t expect it to happen it just did.No way they could be related! My Mother side is Jewish and my Father side is Cristian! So we have to go with that. I was wondering if I was inbred so I started doing research on my family and no we are not at all. Just because I say I love you to your Father doesn’t make you an inbred person mean you have feelings and respect for that person who gave you life.

[@NoahSpurrier]

How does this compare to the European aristocracy? What’s the most inbred region of Canada? I have a strong suspicion, but it’s a bit of a family secret.

[@Im-Perfectly-Imperfect]

I used to work with a woman who married her husband’s father. According to the article I read, the marriage should have been illegal.

[@UserLoserProducer]

WHAT??? That's mad! Legality is not the issue here; That's just gross.

[@Im-Perfectly-Imperfect]

@@UserLoserProducer I totally agree with you.

[@RHR-221b]

Smell the in-breeding on this lot ...

[@bradlemmond]

​@@UserLoserProducer That's more Jerry Springer material than actual incest.

[@Agnar669]

So if she had children with her husband, their new step-father would have also been their grandfather, and if she had children with her husband's father, those children would be the half-brothers and sisters of their nieces and nephews and their father would be their grandfather. And her father-in-law would now be her husband. And her ex husband would be her step brother. This is complicated. Did I miss anything?

[@EvilWeiRamirez]

I just want to know all the sources for this information

[@peacefulpossum2438]

I think he said he was citing WordPress LOL

[@valerief1231]

When you show the video options at 6:44, the second video featuring the blue man, is not. Fugate. He took Colloidal silver thus turning his skin blue.

[@sheilapatros2735]

I have lived my entIre life in KY. I have NEVER. seen people who look like this. I grew up in far north eastern Kentucky, and I later moved to central KY. I was widowed about two years ago. At age 70, I need to be near my family. I am looking forward to more family time and a less stressful atmosphere. I will be able to find it there. P.S. My family is NOT inbred!

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

They don't like no minorities around here. Shades of Duelling Banjos...

[@Blake.Cooper]

South Central Kentucky here and same. I think this video is misguided.

[@drgirlfriend211]

“If it doesn’t apply to me, it doesn’t exist”

[@Blake.Cooper]

I don't have a face tattoo, but yours still exists.@@drgirlfriend211

[@peacefulpossum2438]

@@drgirlfriend211That’s not what we’re saying. As someone up thread said, 2/10 of one percent isn’t terribly significant.

[@cuddlepaws4423]

This reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy's sketch 'Red neck'. One of the funniest ones he comes out with is, "When you attend a family reunion to meet women, you might just be a red neck." He then says, "Oh, I just looked up the back there, and I can see I upset someone. He's sayin', 'It's not funny, is it, sis?'." Also, Bill Hicks once said in one of his shows, that while mingling after a show a man came up to him and said, "Hey Bill, I'd like you to meet my wife and sister."..... And it was the same f*ckin' woman! What is worrying about this is that a large percentage of these regions are in the bible belt. There seems to be a lot of begetting..... according to the bible. Bible in one hand, close relation in the other.

[@starlite04]

I'm curious why Wisconsin is striped and not solid red.

[@farrdawgjoker7087]

I'm from Kentucky and in highschool PE I looked down in the locker room and saw a odd foot so I counted 1 2 3 4 5 6, I miscounted surly so I started over and after the 4th time I realized dude had 6 toes. After some looking into it i found out his parents were first cousins. Even in western Kentucky it happens and to be honest a lot of it has to do with there not being anything else to do and also sometimes crazy religious familys who hate everyone. I had neighbors and their family was their grandparents in a house with the their daughter her husband and 2 children one boy one girl twins. I live about a half mile away but am the first neighbor in that direction and on the other direction was actually my aunt and uncle and 3 cousins. So me and 2 of my cousins were close in age both being girls with 1 a year older than me the other a year younger and we rode horses fourwheelers and were close but that other family hated us because we didn't go to their church and were not going to a church where snakes are involved and I swear they did. Our pastures circled their property so they saw with our horses alot and we would hang out in the barn and one day my younger cousin walks in with the girl twin and she hangs out for about 30 mins and was odd but she left and it was revealed she had a crush on me . Her parents found out she had the crush and she had been to our barn and those twins were removed from school and we never saw them outside again. They were 12 years old at that timelike a year and a half later we learned that the girl twin was pregnant by her brother. They locked them in the house and they could go to church andnplay with snakes and since their religion basically ignored growing up and hormones amd I guess they got tired of reading the bible and they started playing doctor. Its sad really and after the birth of the child the twins were split up and sent to family members in different states. The bany was raised by grandparents claiming to be their daughter. When she was 13 she was dating a fellow church member and got pregnant by her 26 year old boyfriend oh but its ok because they love each other and got married. Or so I'm told. They built a house next to the parents really grandparents and now have I believe 6 kids maybe 7 but they don't let them outside much so they are hard to count. Things like this are more common than you would think. Its sad and bad for all. In college I used to tell a joke about being from KY. It goes Do you know why I never slept with my sister? Because she would never cheat on my brother, she is a good woman and if I have to I'll climb a water tower with so spray paint to prove it. Lol I don't have a sister so this joke is funny.

[@joanwood9480]

My 2nd son had 6 fingers and toes. 24 in all. But my husband and I are not even remotely related. If at all we are 22nd cousins 4X removed. 😅 son now has the requisite 20 digits

[@HesperianHorsePower]

Ya having extra digits does not equate inbreeding lol. Where do people come up with this stuff? I guess all Siamese twins are inbred to going by that logic

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

Try splitting your writing up with paragraphs, with space between. It makes it easier to read, hence, easier to understand. Cheers.

[@rebekahdavis5935]

That is horrifying and disgusting. Those poor kids being essentially forced into grape and incest. Absolutely evil. The law should have stepped in and put all of the adults in jail put those kids in safe and normal homes. Absolutely disgusting. I feel so bad for kids born into these too putrid for words religious zealot weirdo families. GROSS!!!

[@ProctorsGamble]

Yikes 😳 Seems to be catching this polydactyl thing and all 😂

[@shannontucker3710]

Why would you site Word Press as a source?

[@aazhie]

Hey, not sure if this was a required edit, or my own internet freaking out, but the last 30 seconds or so aren't playing. NBD but just commenting for a signal boost if it's a problem that can be fixed

[@Beadle553]

She's not my wife anymore, but she is still my sister!

[@DavidSmith-fz8ju]

South Carolina....my first.driving around there is like a giant family reunion.

[@violinogirl]

So interesting. I moved to Kentucky a few years ago. I was commenting my husband how I notice some interesting features in some folks and that reminds me a lot of the congenital deformities that can occur from inbreeding. Now I know why.

[@Roybobthecfndfighter]

I’m a little confused. Why do you show a picture of Sydney (Australia) harbour and CBD at 5:17, it seems to be very out of context. Then at 5:35 you quote World Press but show the logo for the web design platform of WordPress.

[@dmandipper9102]

I love my old Kentucky home but yeah needless to say whole lotta people round here never been more than 30 miles away from home.

[@dominicramirez7421]

The United States…The REAL House of the Dragon 😂

[@lamar1423]

It usually has to do with transportation. Until modern transportation, most of us were inbred because our ancestors hooked up with whom they could reach on foot. Even worse when you live on an island.

[@peacefulpossum2438]

Not inbreeding, but distance is why my grandmother and her sister married my grandfather and his brother.

[@BuckPalanger]

What happened to the sound at 7:20+?

[@JohnRandomness105]

5:10 Your reference to "West Virginia" including the map showing the state renders your history suspect. "West Virginia" didn't exist as an entity until the Civil War, when it broke off of Virginia to remain with the Union.

[@HardPen-jj5nl]

Not that big a deal, statistically. Yes, genetic defects potential increases but by a relatively small bit. It's when the inbreeding is multiplied generationally that problems surface. So roughly half the states prohibit 1st cousin marriages whike the other 1/2 do not. This is more of a cultural taboo than a medical one. But I'd be curious to learn more about Utah & Hawaii regarding this topic.

[@starri9103]

Look into a polygamous group called The Order/The Kingston Group. They actively practice (with intention) incest because they believe they are descendants of Jesus Christ. LOL Religion can create a hot mess.

[@MeaghanE]

As someone who always disagreed with the the stereotype of Eastern Kentucky, being born and raised there, in Harlan County, you can imagine my surprise when I did my family tree 🥴 lolol. But hey I also traced my (and probably everyone else in Harlan’s lol) ancestors back to European royalty so maybe they were just keeping traditions alive 😅😂

[@CambridgeCookie]

Big up to the young man with a university scholarship, a passion for history and an awesome singing talent. Go forth and enjoy your time in London. To succeed in the face of limited opportunity and socio-economic challenges shows drive and commitment.

[@BINGE1M]

I'm from the US, college educated, etc. Before you named Kentucky, I guessed it would be. (I am from NE. No offense meant to Kentucky implied. I understand it is a very offensive & controversial subject.)

[@kumaranvij]

What does "etc." mean in this context?

[@thesleepinggirl]

@@kumaranvij As etc follows college education and this is a video about incest, I suspect it means "I drink and I know things"

[@BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left]

@@thesleepinggirl He could be all those things plus, well read, curious, thoughtful, understanding. He could be, GOD FORBID!!! WOKE! ;-)

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

In terms of the laws in place, you've got to think there's got to be reason why these laws are in place in the area, and not elsewhere. In general, you only need to pass laws against something if its a serious problem.