Original sentence: However, most people of the time would never consider a Celt non-white.In the mid-18th-century, some Americans saw Germans as being physically too swarthy of complexion to ever pass for White.Others accepted Germans as White without problems.Similarly, some encyclopedias of the time described mid-19th-century Irish immigrants as physically non-White, apelike, evolutionary throwbacks
Edited sentence: Conversely, the Mississippi elite of the Jim Crow era saw Chinese immigrants as being physically White.In the mid-18th-century, Americans saw Germans as being physically too swarthy of complexion to ever pass for White.Similarly, encyclopedias of the time described mid-19th-century Irish immigrants as physically non-White, apelike, evolutionary throwbacks