Quote Originally Posted by kleenex View Post
It may be nit picking but I would say that rather than listing the group as "south Peloponnese" you may consider getting more specific regionally because I've noticed that Messinians have a pretty high slavic and/or north shifting admixture. Somebody posted a PCA on another forum that separated out Taygetos (Maniot Greeks) and Tsakonians from other Southern Peloponnesians. I don't think that South is necessarily more "southern" I think it has to be viewed region by region.

Laconians seem to sometimes shift toward Abruzzo in Italy, which could be due to Cretan affinity, not just a lack of Slavic.