True, I mean they lynched Italians in New Orleans. Most "white people" in New York, Jersey etc., would have gotten the side eye in 1920s deep south. Not as much of an issue today, but it was definitely a thing back in the day.
In the south during the Jim Crow era, there were three kinds of folks living there
Black folks (100% Homegrown ADOS) zero African or Caribbean immigration. Living In the south for 300 years. The cultural backbone of the south.
Small Group of Indians who lived in Indian reserves. They decided to stay in their homelands instead of going west (trail of tears)
And white folks. And at that time 99% of southern white folks were southern baptist/Methodist by creed and Anglo-saxon/scots Irish by blood. Them good ol boys/ofays would definitely have given the

to olive skinned Italians/sicilians, Ukrainians, orthodox Greeks, hungarians, poles and especially orthodox or secular Jews.
KKK in the 1910s-1920s legit despised the Jews, Italians, all eastern euros(Polacks) and all white Catholics, less than « nigras » but they still were on the most hated list.
Eastern and Southern European immigration to the USA peaked between 1880 and 1924. These poles, Russian jews, Italians, Hungarians, Slovaks etc settled in the northern/midwestern cities. They never went to the south except for a little number of Eastern European Jews who later assimilated to the Jim Crow white supremacist culture.
Before that the previous wave of immigration(Irish/German immigrants settled in the same areas.
Also black immigrants from Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Rico and Haiti moved to northern cities like New York/Philly/Boston/New Jersey in the first half of the 20th century)
The south traditionally was never a land of immigration. the last waves of immigrants to Dixie was them scots Irish from Scotland and Northern Ireland in the middle 18th century and the imported African slaves before the slave trade was officially abolished in 1807.
True, I mean they lynched Italians in New Orleans. Most "white people" in New York, Jersey etc., would have gotten the side eye in 1920s deep south. Not as much of an issue today, but it was definitely a thing back in the day.