[twigs]

So it isn`t an issue of morality but of class differences. It`s all right for the First Families of Virginia but not for the worst families of West Virginia.

How do you read that???

[Loyalist]

Loyalist: So it isn`t an issue of morality but of class differences. It`s all right for the First Families of Virginia but not for the worst families of West Virginia.

twigs: How do you read that???

It's the underlying theme of the comments generated so far.

Cousin marriage seems to be acceptable provided it's within the best and brightest families so as to keep the bloodlines producing more of the best and brightest. That's not just the attitude among European royalty and aristocracy; it also seems to be one among some people descended from old-stock American families.

But when the poor white trash in the Appalachians marry their cousins, it's one comment after another semi-retarded slack-jawed yokels playing duelling banjos on the front porch drinking moonshine and watching the rungs fall off the DNA ladder.