Blue eyes are increasingly rare in America

[Libertas]

This may be due to the large number of Hispanic, African and Asiatic immigrants to th USA.

[Arundel]

Blue Eyes
In my family, who are basically English, with a little French, blue eyes are very dominant.
They are very beautifully shaped, rather large, and definitely blue. On a whole my family (Sisson) have dark hair and are light complexioned. I did not inherit the blue eyes, but when my son was born, there he was, with the dominant blue eyes of my Sisson family.
The first time a relative saw him, she remarked that he had the Sisson eyes, which was true. As I said mine are brown and my husband's are hazel. I guess the dominant gene was lying dormant in my gene pool. I always wondered if they had been inherited from some ancient viking who was raiding in England and France.

[Stegura]

This may be due to the large number of Hispanic, African and Asiatic immigrants to th USA.

America has relatively few African immigrants compared to the amount of Asian and Hispanic immigrants we have.

The reasons for the decline of blue eyes in America are. . . . . . .

-Massive third-world immigration.
-low birth rates among European Americans.
-higher birthrates from Blacks and Hispanics (particularly Mexicans).
-Rising rates of miscegnation betweens European Americans and non-Whites.
-European Americans adopting non-White children rather then giving birth to their own kind.

[Jägerstaffel]

Blue eyes are beautiful and I don't think they'll ever be gone in America (I hope).

Most European Americans carry the trait for blue eyes; no matter their eye colour - and so as long as we stick to our own race we will keep our blue eyes.

My wife and I both have green eyes and have two sky and steel blue-eyed children respectively.

[Arundel]

Down here just about everyone has blue or green eyes. (Even mexicans, native americans, and blacks.) I realize that my area is not representative of the nation as a whole. I don't believe that blue eyes will ever die out though. Even individuals with brown eyes can carry the genes for blue eyes, and if two individuals with brown eyes marry (who both carry the genes for blue) then they can give birth to a blue eyed child.

You are right about blue eyes being dominant. In my Sisson family which is English/French, we have what we call the Sisson eyes, very lovely large blue eyes, and very dominant. I did not inherit them, I inherited the shape, but mine are brown, and my husbands are hazel. Guess what, when my son was born there were the Sisson eyes. He had black hair, with blue eyes, quite a combination. I always laughed and said they must be inherited from some raiding viking in England. But since I joined the forum I have learned that the vikings settled in Normandy, so perhaps they came from our french/norman side. What do you think?

[Gooding]

My eyes are a light blue, with some gray.My daughter's eyes are the cornflower blue of her mother's Swaney family and my wife's eyes have the steel-blue color of her Herriott family. I'll do my part to make sure at least a few people have the "Gooding blue eyes" of myself and my Dad.Dad's an interesting study in that, anyway.His father's eyes were brown, his mother's eyes were hazel.However, his uncle has and his grandfather had the same kind of blue eyes that he and I have today.Odd, really.

[Æmeric]

At the end of the 19th century, America's population was nearly 90% Europid, with the overwhelming majority being of Nordish racial stock. today Europids are around 66% of the population and falling. The Nordish element of the population is down to about 50%. So the decrease in the percentage of blueyed people in the population has much more to do with the substantial increase of non-Nordish Europids in the first part of the 20th century & the immigration of millions of non-Europids after 1968. The blueyed or Nordish population is not going to go extinct in America - numerically it's probably as high as it's ever been. It's more a matter of we will have to start fighting for our living space, something we have taken for granted. The current popualtion trends are not guaranteed to continue uninterrupted. They will probably be reversed in the chaos of thecoming years.

[Hors]

The Nordish element of the population is down to about 50%

So how come the blue eyed people are less than 20%?

[Æmeric]

Not all Nordish people have blue eyes. Many have grey or green eyes. And some even have brown eyes. I know brown eyes are not uncommon among German-Americans. I've even met Norwegian-Americans with brown eyes.

[Hors]

I can't accept your point of view. It's based on the ethnical basis of political inspiration. There are other ideas in this spectrum, such as Iranian/Indian "Aryans", Mexican Nazi, Arab "Whites" etc. The only reliable criterion (on the population level) is the colour of the iris. Eyes don't lie.