I’m a tea partier, and I am a rather swarthy Jewish guy.
Do you have a sister? Swarthy and Jewish are a nice combination.
"Whiteness" in America has actually had little to do with European ancestry, and more as a construct of "social acceptance" by the host population, which is why folks of non-European ancestry were incorporated into the "white" category decades ago, and why certain ethnic groups from Europe (Italians, Portuguese, Slavs, etc.) were considered "nonwhite" until they assimilated.