No, that is false. Population just declined. There are plenty of Krajina Serbs who are genetically more Croat than Serb like.
And it is visible in surnames.
Vrkić is typical Croatian surname and among Krajina Serbs it is from locals.
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It is well known and historically recorded that most of population fled due to Ottoman-Austrian wars. Some who stayed got islamicized.
Krajina Serbs are now mixing with Serbia's Serbs and we are going to be in next generation more closer to them and further from Croats or anyone else.
Well that's obvious. Your results for example are not Croat-like. You seem like a typical Serb with more Slav admixture than is average.
Military frontier had mixed population, for example Croatian population steadily declined trough centuries and only later Serbs became majority.
In beginnings of it Croats were majority. Later came Serbs, Vlachs, some Germans, Hungarians.
Even after Serbs became majority population they never came close to being 100% in the region.
the only two clear clusters among Serbs are the more southern Montenegrins and all other Serbs.
regions like Lika or Western Serbia mean nothing for autosomal. even Serbs from the same town, Dvor na Uni plot in 2 separate clusters.
btw did you see my plot of Croats (results provided by ph2ter) on page 58 of this thread?
It wasn't an insult in that time but social status. I am convinced actual Vlachs migrated with Serbs though. In great Serb migrations to Vojvodina ethnic composition was also mixed except being predominately Serbian.
Even among Burgerland Croats there is a ''Vlach'' subgroup.
I think Štokavian dialect was created as fussion between Slavic and Vlach groups. Maybe you didn't know but North/Kajkavian Croats call all Štokavians Vlachs, including Croats štokavians.
Also sherperding lifestyle had to be adopted upon interaction with Vlachs.
My opinion is remnants of Vlachs were always minority among migrating SW Slavs but never completely assimilated until later on.