Angnix wrote:
My family honestly has quite a few white supremacists, they immigrated quite recently from Eastern Kentucky... But they claim however they're part Cherokee, my grandma and even my great grandma were really dark-skinned...
According to DNA tests taken by relatives, my family is primarily "scot-irish" a white protestant group from the British Isles. But... Most people in that area that were dark actually claimed they were part Native American because in reality they were Melungeons, a complex mixed-race group that tried to hide the fact they had significant African-American in them! Some of them also have Native American and Middle Eastern and Mediterranean characteristics. I look very pale myself, but I have traits that indicate I have mixed ansectory, for example I have extremely dark, pretty much black very curly hair and I even have what's called shovel-shaped incisors, not present in pure Caucasians...
Anyway... I mean looking at how dark many of my family members are, etc.. I mean how can they justify being so racist? I don't understand, but reading about these things was very interesting!! !
Fascinating.
The Appalachian mountains are notorious for two opposite things. Inbreeding, AND for out breeding. Lol!
There really are inbred types whose family tree "doesnt branch" (as Jeff Foxworthy put it). Folks in isolated valleys would marry cousins, and the result would be ...something like the British Royal Family...a bunch of messed up inbred peckerwoods! Lol!
But you also have pockets of folks who are descended from racial mixing in the distant past- of the kind that would be frowned upon, and even outright outlawed in later times in the south- Whites with Amerindian, Whites with Blacks, or all three. And the mysterious Malungians are long standing mystery group who seem to have all three races PLUS some admixture of Middle Eastern.
Your shovel shaped incisors are an East Asian trait (common to Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) that it also common in Native Americans.