bigmack
10-26-2006, 08:21 PM
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As a decendant of Irish & Swedish heritage all in my fam have blues. Looks like it's becoming a rarity.
...Once a hallmark of the boy and girl next door, blue eyes have become increasingly rare among American children. Immigration patterns, intermarriage and genetics all play a part in their steady decline. While the drop-off has been a century in the making, the plunge in the past few decades has taken place at a remarkable rate.
...About half of Americans born at the turn of the century had blue eyes, according to a 2002 Loyola University study in Chicago. By midcentury that number had dropped to a third. Today only about one of every six Americans has blue eyes, said Mark Grant, the epidemiologist who conducted the study.
...A century ago, 80 percent of people married within their ethnic group, Grant said. Blue eyes -- a genetically recessive trait -- were routinely passed down, especially among people of English, Irish, and Northern European ancestry.
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/502419.html
As a decendant of Irish & Swedish heritage all in my fam have blues. Looks like it's becoming a rarity.
...Once a hallmark of the boy and girl next door, blue eyes have become increasingly rare among American children. Immigration patterns, intermarriage and genetics all play a part in their steady decline. While the drop-off has been a century in the making, the plunge in the past few decades has taken place at a remarkable rate.
...About half of Americans born at the turn of the century had blue eyes, according to a 2002 Loyola University study in Chicago. By midcentury that number had dropped to a third. Today only about one of every six Americans has blue eyes, said Mark Grant, the epidemiologist who conducted the study.
...A century ago, 80 percent of people married within their ethnic group, Grant said. Blue eyes -- a genetically recessive trait -- were routinely passed down, especially among people of English, Irish, and Northern European ancestry.
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/502419.html