Not according to the OP, he thinks they were pure southern or these light Italians are 100% the same genetically as dark Italians.
He posted this map saying it's proof all Italians are more similar to eachother than other people, while there's a ton of ITs north of the Italian core, lol. Historic Italian Nordicism(again, I am not a historic Nordicism, I'm just pointing it out) simply makes the point(whether they express it well or not is another story) that the upper classes of the Roman Empire were those Northern ITs closer to Germany, not the ITs closer to the Italian core, that's pretty much their argument(and again, I don't agree with it, I don't think there's suffiecient evidence, I don't even know if the sources in the OP's first post are correct, people describing others in ancient writings is iffy anyway), not that they were the Nordid/Scandinavian phenotype. Not to mention, Alpinids/Dinarids/Norics which the OP is claiming as Italian aren't even most common in Italy, especially not in central or south Italy.
I know, you said Northern Italy independence is irrelevant now. There's still a party called Lega Nord so it is relevant.
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