White people is code for white people. Pittsburgh is one of the whitest metro areas in the country. Even the city itself is overwhelmingly white (yes it’s a standard Dem stronghold).
Pittsburgh very successfully reinvented itself after the steel industry collapsed.
They still hold many of the Union labor mentalities from those previous days.
I don't give a shit if she's white or black ... THAT statement is right out out Saul Alinsky's Handbook For Radicals with a pretty fair dose of Karl Marx influence