New analysis of the prevalence of hair colors in Northern Europepic.twitter.com/V55BK05ob5
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but only 0.2% of Germans have red hair (I expected more, for some reason)
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It's much higher than 0.2%, the only citation for that number is an 1888 study by Rudolf Virchow. In the Races of Europe Carleton Coon reports on a sample of Hessians who have "a high incidence (4 per cent) of red".
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In a now tragically lost GNXP post utilizing the GSS, Jason Malloy found the incidence of red hair in German Americans was nearly as high as in generic British Americans who were themselves less rufous than the Irish.
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I grew up in rural Minnesota, where practically everyone is ethnically either German or Norwegian, and my informal impression is that red hair was about 4x as common in people with German last names as in Scandos.
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