From what I’ve read genetic analysis show that they are closer related to people in the Levante area than North Africa. It’s more the Punic and Carthagian heritage than the Moors who were there for a rather short time (followed by a Normanic invasion, that should actually have balanced things out a bit in their gene pool).
Back to them, American-Italian usually just means half jewish Goombah…
From what I’ve read genetic analysis show that they are closer related to people in the Levante area than North Africa. It’s more the Punic and Carthagian heritage than the Moors who were there for a rather short time (followed by a Normanic invasion, that should actually have balanced things out a bit in their gene pool).
Back to them, American-Italian usually just means half jewish Goombah…