Considering that the 1st US census in 1790 lumped all the indigenous European ethnicities together as White instead of counting non-Anglos seperatly like Franklin would have wanted, clearly our founders decided such back in the late 18th century.
It's really too bad there's literally no evidence of that. The British conception of White and the initial American conception of White was the same. The British kept theirs; Americans broadened it.
No evidence, other than centuries of census records. Go ahead, point me to any year in the US census where Germans, Irish, etc were ever counted as non-Whites.
When did you decide that Germans were white?
Considering that the 1st US census in 1790 lumped all the indigenous European ethnicities together as White instead of counting non-Anglos seperatly like Franklin would have wanted, clearly our founders decided such back in the late 18th century.
It's really too bad there's literally no evidence of that. The British conception of White and the initial American conception of White was the same. The British kept theirs; Americans broadened it.
No evidence, other than centuries of census records. Go ahead, point me to any year in the US census where Germans, Irish, etc were ever counted as non-Whites.
Were jews white back then too?