Can inbreeding create offspring with blue skin?
OK. At first I said, “No way.” Then I consulted “The Straight Dope” I swear, Cecil Adams knows everything. His column on the issue says it all: The link, at straightdope.com: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980724.html “Is there really a race of blue people? 24-Jul-1998 Dear Cecil: My husband swears that when he took anthropology they talked about a race of blue people. How did I miss this? Don’t you dare say it was the Smurfs. –Lonijo, via AOL Dear Lonijo: OK, it wasn’t the Smurfs. I was thinking maybe I could work up something involving the chronically depressed, fans of B.B. King, or Minnesotans in January, but those all pretty much suck too. So I may as well tell you the truth, namely that your husband is probably talking about the blue Fugates of Kentucky, the best warning against the dangers of INBREEDING prior to the arrival of Prince Charles. The blue Fugates weren’t a race but rather an excessively tight-knit family living in the Appalachian Mountains. The patriarch of
