I'm not physically or mentally deficient. Nor am I Muslim. But genealogy is fun for me because so many of my lines converge on common ancestors. Us Southerners had ancestors who lived in rural areas with limited access to new blood. We did ok.
You cannot compare your situation (amongst "Southerners" but simlar to many rural communities in all parts of the US) with first cousin marriage as a normal routine occurence among Muslims.
"I'm not physically or mentally deficient. Nor am I Muslim. But genealogy is fun for me because so many of my lines converge on common ancestors. Us Southerners had ancestors who lived in rural areas with limited access to new blood. We did ok."
LOL, maybe you should change your FReeper name to "Twig" then, as in "if your family tree doesn't fork...." ;-)