Well as Dennis Hopper was kind enough to point out in the movie True Romance to Christopher Walkens character, most italians were blonde with blue eyes. Whether he was right i really have no idea but who am i to argue with Dennis Hopper.

"So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that ni**er gene. Now this..."