Yes, don't let these Middle Eastern wars fool you. They are counted as whites on the census and they sure as hell act like whites when they get over here.
Since when are J1 haplogroup related or even apart of the R1?
the census is outdated, we have science now, this isn't the 30s. J1 are most def not from the caucus mountains. They are not white, they're their own category. The problem with them is that they're smack in the middle of everyone, so they're a sort of 'grey' area. Semites closer to africa tend to be darker due to admixtures and semites closer to the north look more european like syrians. but their just admixtures, native levant and arabians are semites.