@sirdroseph: You seem to have an endless supply of videos showing Black people taking contrarian/against-the-grain positions. Why so obsessed? 

Be a man; vote for a woman.
I'm sure Sam Elliott is minutes away from having his special kinda stupid meme used against him.

Be a man; vote for a woman.
I'm sure Sam Elliott is minutes away from having his special kinda stupid meme used against him.

It’s possible that all the complaints about Ms. Harris’s speaking style are just another bit of trumped-up outrage, anything to get people fired up for a moment. But my less generous interpretation is that conservatives find her accent infuriating for one very specific reason: because they buy the negative stereotypes. They associate Southern accents with less educated, working-class people who, if they’re white, might be racist — and that’s a demographic that conservatives cynically regard as their property.

When Mr. Trump does photo ops in a big rig and says, “I love the uneducated,” he’s not so much code-switching as code-hitching, adopting signifiers that he — a billionaire with inherited wealth and an Ivy League degree — has no authentic claim to understanding, but which he thinks will appeal to his base. This is the same reason the private school alum and two-time Ivy League graduate Ted Cruz elongates his drawl while declaring that liberals can “kiss my ass.” Because he and Mr. Trump think it’s useful.

Perhaps the most enduring fiction that Republicans have sold to the electorate is that despite significantly shifting the tax burden onto working people, enacting explicitly antilabor policies, trying to gut public education and attenuate what little social safety net this country still offers, Republicans are somehow supposedly the better party for the working class.

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