after hearing the views of a number of corn breeders, it seems that many know there is a "touch of this" and a "touch of that" in the cornsnake genepool. There are still some diehard locality collectors in the corn world too, but from what I see, there is a general attitude that cornsnakes are as near a domesticated snake as you can get and as long as hybrids don't contaminate MY genepool (as in kingnsnake, milksnake, or locality corns, etc etc) then it tends to get shrugged off. There is more than just emori in a lot of corn lines - there has been a lot of talk about whether grey ratsnake is in X bloodline, which has been crossed with many other lines by now. And of course the jungle corns that have too much corn blood etc. becoming lost if the fold. I don't think that corn breeders are blinded to the fact that this specie has been tampered with a bit. I just think that there is a tiny bit more acceptance/open-mindedness in the cornworld....? I could be wrong about that, of course.... and if there IS more acceptance on the hybrid issue among corn enthusiasts, it is more out of necessity than anything else (the genepool has already been contaminated, it it too late to change it, and corns are pretty darn cool the way they are .) Also, there does seem to be a different attitude regarding emori/corn crosses vs other crosses. Some people still want to call the emori a subspecie of corn.

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