QUESTION TO THE SICILIAN MEMBERS: who do you feel is more friendly to you?

[Dylan]

Allalor is full Abruzzese and he considers what your family said a real crap. No offence but I've never seen an Abruzzese in my life who feel a northern Italian and dislike a southern. Maybe in Us is different but Americans can speak for their knowledge not for Italians.

The people who said this are all my grandmother and her family who are all really old. They're from Abruzzo and Marche (Fano), but Marche still isn't northern. It probably has something to do with the personalities of these individual family members or being immigrants from Italy. But I'm not sure.

Also I don't think I ever said anything about my relatives feeling more northern than southern from Abruzzese. I can't even find a quote from me mentioning it, but I probably said something on this topic. My grandmother who is Abruzzese and now lives in America denies that Abruzzo is Southern Italy and says its central. Not Northern. I don't think she feels more northern than southern, she just has some prejudices towards what she regards as southern italians. (She's described Sicilians and Neopolitans as brutes and knife throwers). But she was happy when she found out my girlfriend was Sicilian-American, so its obviously not anything huge.

[alfieb]

I would agree with your grandmother. Your family is Central Italian.

[Sikeliot]

I think of Abruzzo as central-southern.

[Tiberio]

Abruzzo is a transitional region but 800 years of Kingdom with the South is the most important part of their history.

[Sikeliot]

I mean genes and phenotype. They are slightly more northern than Sicilians.

[Tooting Carmen]

I mean genes and phenotype. They are slightly more northern than Sicilians.

Did you have a look at the links from Abruzzo I posted? What did you think?

[Tiberio]

I mean genes and phenotype. They are slightly more northern than Sicilians.

Geography and climate also, but it describes very well the genetic cline of Italy. I think a northern Campanian and a north Apulian is more close to them.

[Era]

I mean genes and phenotype. They are slightly more northern than Sicilians.

lol

[Sikeliot]

lol

Why is that funny?

[Sikeliot]

Did you have a look at the links from Abruzzo I posted? What did you think?

Consistent with my post above.