Are there any towns in your area that have a reputation for residents being inbred?

No

The city I live in, Wilmington, DE, but it’s only the Du Pont family that’s doing it, the inbreeding that is. :-) The cousins marry at and then hide their hideous, deformed, mutant, inbred offspring at a place called The Cult House on Cossart Road, just over the border, in PA.

And because I know you’ll want to learn all about the cult house, an area also known as Satanville, I offer the following:

The Cult House on Facebook

The Cult House on youtube

In the Bay Area? Probably not. We have towns known for people getting shot just for walking down the street in the wrong-colored T-shirt, but I don’t hear much about inbreeding here.

we have a whole town that consist of three families

Nope. The worst reputation I’ve heard for any town near us has to do with meth, not relations.

There is a community about 20 miles up the mountain from me that has long had a joking and sardonic reputation for inbred hillbilly types.

The area is actually home to a diverse population, families, retired, beautiful area, but, it has had that reputation for as long as I can remember. haha

I grew up in a relatively small town in Virginia and am still fairly well connected to it. The only case that would come close is when a former classmate’s father died and his mother later married his dad’s widowed brother. She was well past the procreation age though.

I, um, live in West Virginia, so… every town? On a serious note, apparently, it’s not uncommon in certain areas of Appalachia.

In my hometown, Ramapo, NY, there is a village called Hillburn. I am not sure if the people there are truly inbred, but that is the reputation that they have. It is true, however, that many of them share the same few (usually Dutch) last names. The derogatory name for the people there is “Jackson Whites,” although many of them prefer to be referred to as Ramapough Indians. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians for more info.

I live in the south-west of England. There are a number of towns that have that kind of reputation!

I live in Brooklyn, NY and I have no idea about such groupings.

Yes. I don’t have any kin folk around here so I had to marry out of state.