It's a weird thing. Red hair used to mean working class or poor. We don't even think about that anymore because of prominent rich red heads, but it was the reference being made when comics were around.
It's even older than you think. Thor represents the working class in Norse legends. He has a hammer, is red haired, and is built wide like farmers and workmen. This got tossed out the window for comics because it seemed ridiculous to have a Norse God be red haired.
Because the highest density of redheads in the world is Ireland and Scotland, and migrants from both were generally not that high up the social ladder historically.
It's a weird thing. Red hair used to mean working class or poor. We don't even think about that anymore because of prominent rich red heads, but it was the reference being made when comics were around.
It's even older than you think. Thor represents the working class in Norse legends. He has a hammer, is red haired, and is built wide like farmers and workmen. This got tossed out the window for comics because it seemed ridiculous to have a Norse God be red haired.
It's why the Weasleys are redheads.
Exactly.
Because the highest density of redheads in the world is Ireland and Scotland, and migrants from both were generally not that high up the social ladder historically.
Laughs in German and Danish.
I know a native Nordic person who has red hair so totally not impossible for non-Irish to have red hair even though it's extremely rare.
Red hair is pretty, shame media erases it.