Whiteness once centered on Anglo-Saxon Protestant identity unlike today

Evidence

Most White Americans today do not identify with their countries of origin. Nor do they recognize the physiognomic differences between Slavs, Celts, Teutons, Hebrews, Iberians, Scandinavians, or Anglo-Saxons. Instead, Whiteness now centers on a common European ancestry and Judeo- Christian identity. But this was not always the case. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 353

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Christian identity is conflated in conservative rhetoric with whiteness itself — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 165; Irish and free Blacks shared a common lowly culture before the Irish became white — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 34