We completely agree about race and Bacon's Rebellion. But if the Irish or the Jews had not been white, they would not have been able to immigrate.
See this from the PBS site on race:
"The 1790 Naturalization Act reserves naturalized citizenship for whites only. African Americans are not guaranteed citizenship until 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified in the wake of Reconstruction. Groups of Native Americans become citizens through individual treaties or intermarriage and finally, through the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. Asian immigrants are ineligible to citizenship until the 1954 McCarran-Walter Act removes all racial barriers to naturalization. Without citizenship, nonwhites are denied the right to vote, own property, bring suit, testify in court - all the basic protections and entitlements that white citizens take for granted."
If Jews or the Irish were not originally white under the 1790 act, there would've been an update giving them the right to become citizens. That update was never necessary because they were always white.
