How come Italians weren’t considered white by Americans until the 1950's, even though Rome was the birth place of modern Western Civilization and Hitler believed Italians were honorary Aryan whites?

Was it because of their mixed race shit skin or their Catholicism?

>>17785689 (OP)
>How come-BRAAAAPPPPPP

>>17785689 (OP)
>Rome
>Western
Why do wh*tes do this?