Distribution
The majority of humans have black hair. This is likely the original hair color of Homo sapiens, and is found in its greatest distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the pre-Columbian Americas. Black hair is also particularly common in people of Southern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa, regardless of ethnolinguistic affiliation. It is notably concentrated among Celtic peoples of Europe. For example, the western Irish are particularly noted for their curly, very dark brown to jet-black hair combined with either dark (such as brown) or light (such as green, gray or blue) colored eyes. Irish people with these traits are known as the "Black Irish". This characteristic can be seen in portions of British people throughout the United Kingdom. Black haired people with either dark or light colored eyes can also be seen among the Indo-European ethnic groups of Central and West Asia; including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North India. Black hair is very scarce in the Baltic littoral, where true blondism is believed to have originated. Raven black is the more sought after shade of black hair.
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“The question for the country now is how to secure a more equal distribution of property among the people. There can be no republican institutions with vast masses of property permanently in a few hands, and large masses of voters without property.... Let no man get by inheritance, or by will, more than will produce at four per cent interest an income ... of fifteen thousand dollars] per year, or an estate of five hundred thousand dollars.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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