Grrrrrr!
The article still doesn't explain the Italian redheads.
Italian redheads are decendants of the Etruscans who are believed to be Sythian nomads who colonized Tuscany from the North, probably Hungary or the Russian Steppes.
You're a redhead!? No wonder I like you. ;-) I have Scottish and Irish ancestors, and though I'm half Filipino, I have red highlights. One woman who cut my hair asked if I had dyed my hair. I said, "Nope, 100% natural."
I have two close friends of mine who are redheads. One, who I had a crush on for the longest time, recently got married (she's the friend I visited in England back in September). The other is an art history graduate student up in Boston. She's a hardcore leftist, but somehow, we get along. I just wrote her an e-mail this morning, joking with her about my attraction towards redheads, that she is well aware of. I had stumbled upon a rerun of the X-Files on Sci-fi earlier this morning. I said to her that watching Gillian Anderson and the X-Files during my early teenage years must be partially to blame for my attraction. ;-)