The hard-core racists don’t think Italians are white.
Real hard core ones don’t think German peoples are.
To hairy
You’re being a little broad-stroke there yourself. It’s just the southern Italians, who are in large part Mediterranean, with whom people overly concerned with race take issue as being “white.” Northern Italians are quite “white.” And Spaniards can be quite “white” too, despite the popular misconception that all Spanish speakers are “brown people.” I had a red-haired green-eyed Spaniard for a college roommate for a semester. Genuine fascist, the only one I’ve ever met. Decent guy in many regards, scary hard ass in others. I wouldn’t want him to have control over me politically.