I thought Sam Spade and Mike Assad said that they were too, maybe I'm wrong though.
I'm relatively sure that Sam's white, and Assad is Middle Eastern.
Middle Easterners are considered White.
I don't think that's true for most of the country. Heck, I'm sure there are people out there who still consider Italians non-white.
According to the census.
Aren't people from the Subcontinent white, too? Doesn't that make you white?
No. Since Bangladesh is on the eastern end of the subcontinent, I'm as Dravidian as Aryan, whereas many Pakistanis look like Arabs. I'm classified as Asian, along with Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese, which is somewhat odd.
Most Pakistanis look like North Indians, though there are a few Pushtuns that look Afghan/Iranian (well since they are).