Is it just me, or do a lot of really rural people just look...odd? Oddly proportioned faces (eyes really wide or close together, really big ears, huge foreheads), gangly, you name it.
I'm not trying to be unkind, but I've definitely noticed this while visiting the middle of nowhere where DH's mom's family lived, middle of nowhere in another state where his dad lives, and the Walmart [shudder] by work. The last is more like on the fringe of the exurbs, but it's the closest Walmart to many tiny rural communities, so it draws them from far and wide.
My best guess is a lack of genetic diversity, but I'm open to other theories. Just to reiterate, I'm not saying that they fail to meet some arbitrary standard of beauty, I'm saying if you took their physical measurements, many of them would have at least one feature that's a couple of standard deviations away from average.
(I texted DH about this, but all he did was ask if I was calling him odd looking, so I had to tell him only in the sense that's he's unusually handsome.)
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