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White House press secreatry Karine Jean-Pierre has “no idea” about Vice President Kamala Harris’s use of a southern-fried drawl she occasionally deploys on the campaign trail. Harris, who hails from California and has black and Indian heritage, deploys a southern-fried accent during speeches in certain areas of the nation. The accent raises concerns about Harris’s sincerity. Voters are often attuned to inauthenticity in politicians. “Since when does the Vice President have what sounds like a Southern accent?” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre in Tuesday’s press conference.

SELMA, ALA. - On stage, the famous jazz pianist Thelonious Monk wore a collard-leaf pin in his lapel - an act of solidarity, in the guise of a key Southern food, with his sharecropper roots. Standing in front of Selma High School the other day, principal Roosevelt Wilson broke with Mr. Monk and proclaimed war on the humble but proud collard, the leafy green usually cooked with lard, and all the other unhealthy Southern foods it evokes. "If I could, I'd tell them never to eat collards again," says the appropriately lean Mr. Wilson, as he surveys gossiping gaggles of...