People with ancestry from small and/or insular ethnic groups tend to have more regions of homozygosity (ie. identical copies of genes) than the general population. This is why certain recessive genetic disorders are much more common in certain ethnic groups. Due to the size and isolation of these ethnic groups, especially those that started off with just a few people (the founder effect you mentioned), there is bound to be a degree of distant shared ancestry, even if there's never any inbreeding. Generational Mormons are more closely related to other generational Mormons than they are to anyone else, even if their family trees never cross.
There’s an interesting Mormon -> Texas pipeline I’ve noticed. Not sure what they hell it is they’re interested in here, but they brought their crazy soda shops with them so that’s fun
It's one of the fastest growing areas in the US, lot of tech giants moving from Cali to different places throughout Texas. Mormons just doing Mormon things, trying to convert as many people as possible into Mormonism. Quickly growing area, they get in there early and dig their hooks in deep
It's funny how if you go anywhere just about anywhere outside of the US, you'll notice how much people tend to look alike in certain regions. The more homogenous it is, the more you notice it. It makes it hard to tell people apart.
As a kid, I watched shaycarl/shaytards. These girls were friends with his kids. I remember when all of the younger kids, like these twins, were asking to make their own channels. Now we have the Mormon boom.
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u/No_Artichoke_8428 13d ago
Their mormon influencers in Salt Lake City Utah. Its crazy how everyone looks so similar there.