Posted by:
ificouldhietokolob
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Date: February 02, 2018 11:06AM
It's not only polygamists...even since polygamy ended, Utah has tended towards "inbreeding." Don't marry outside your religion, or your "race," or even your town, the mormon profits counseled. And the members obeyed.
Here's an interesting story on this subject -- and especially personally interesting, because one of my cousins married into the family of the author, and one of my cousin's children died at 26 due to nephritis. Which was inherited from inbreeding, faithful "mormon pioneers."
http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html