Racist southern whites are racist and white. News at 11.
No, but many if not most Muslims wouldn't be considered white (certainly not by racist American whites). And the fact that most Muslims around the world are not American and that most Americans are unfamiliar with the various and diverse respective cultures of over 1 billion Muslims (outside of what they get from the American media portrayal of Muslims as some monolithic group of would-be terrorists or terrorist-sympathizers) makes them very easy to categorize as "Other"-
especially for racist American whites.
