Half true. Historians have written on this quite a bit, but this article gives a solid overview: https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-alw

Half true. Historians have written on this quite a bit, but this article gives a solid overview: https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-always-considered-white-and-acceptable/ https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-a... At points in time, some states have had laws on the books that 100% differentiated between "white" people and other European immigrants.