She is Puerto Rican, Spanish mostly.
Does Rednecks count?
No, for at least the last few decades “people of color” has meant “non-white”. “Colored people” refers specifically to African-Americans, and is considered perjorative nowadays, for other reason other than it seems to have been most popular when used to segregate during Jim Crow.
The distinction between the two is obviously lost on a lot of people, and so can make for some awkward situations as well as sentence construction!