Asians are honorary whites in Kentucky

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill providing Federal protection for interracial marriage.

McConnell’s wife is Elaine Chao, former US Secretary for Transportation, is Asian.

Per Wikipedia:

Honorary whites is a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa to grant some of rights and privileges of whites to those who would otherwise have been treated as non-whites under the Population Registration Act. This was made on a case by case basis to select individuals but also certain racial groups, notably East Asians who were ascribed as honorary whites. Such examples include the Japanese, Koreans and Taiwanese who were granted this “honorary white” status, and later the local Chinese community and individually designated figures of various other races were added as well.