Wow, well ain't that some shit. And in year 2013, no less.

Yeah, my grandma died four years ago - 2009 - and I'm pretty sure she considered Jews kind of a third group, neither white nor "colored". I couldn't swear that my own contemporaries still in Indiana don't think the same, but everybody's wised up to the point that they don't actually come out and state anything explicitly. (This is a good thing; it'll slow down the transmission of that attitude to their own kids.)

America's a weird place.

He probably means "caucasian".

It's odd to lump categorise. Some Jews are white, and some are not.