>>507512350 (OP)>"Croats" from Herzegovinaare actually serbs
now before you curse my name, hear me out
serbs in the littoral have been under italian influence for nearly five centuries, and have been systematically catholicized or expelled multiple times in history
universally, this results in people of better character either leaving or getting killed, and utter scum switching sides and profiting
and you know what kind of mentality converts have? in your own words they
>would sell their own mothers for a shiny trinketthat's why they were the most fanatical ustase, just like their muslim counterparts were the most loyal to the ottomans, because they subconsciously have to prove themselves and try to remove the physical reminder of their former selves- in this case the unconverted population
even in families where conversion is not recorded, the mentality unmistakably persists
now combine that with natural migrations, random actual croats mixed in, and herzegovina starts making sense