It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on. John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks, and he ain't stupid. He comes from a long line of southern elites. His great-great-great-grandfather Sanders Neely once enslaved 120 people on the Eutaw Planation in east Mississippi. His other great-great-great-grandfather Oswell Neely enslaved 55 people on the LaVacca Plantation in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. And his other great-great-great-grand-grandfather Nathan Calhoun enslaved 65 people on his farm in South Carolina. Nathan's son, Dabney Calhoun (Kennedy's great-great-grandfather) was a physician who enslaved 22 people. Dabney's son, Leonidas Calhoun (Kennedy's great-grandfather), was also a physician and inherited all that land after the Civil War and worked it with the cheap labor of Black farmers. Leonidas' son, William Calhoun (Kennedy's grandpappy on his mama's side), was a state lawmaker whose birth brought these various enslaving family branches together and it was he who inherited the LaVacca Plantation. Kennedy's mama was born and raised on the LaVacca Plantation and Kennedy, himself, was named an inheritor of that land passed down all the way back from his slaveholder great(x3)-granddaddy. John Kennedy was born into an elite family. He was born into wealth. He graduated as a co-valedictorian of his high school class. Then he graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt. Then he graduated at the top of his class at University of Virginia School of Law, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Law Review. Then he took his happy ass over to England and graduated from Oxford with a first class honours degree in civil law. Folks... this performance he puts on, all of it, the whole thing, is a political brand. It's a costume. He is committed to the bit. Go back and look at old videos of his interviews early in his political career. There's a slight accent there, but it ain't the heavy, drippy, molasses-in-my-mouth, aw shucks, "all I need in this cruel world is a watering hole and muh fishin' pole" patter he does these days. It's all a performance, and it's utterly shameless. So, for this elitist prick to pretend he's not overeducated and not elitist and just one of the good ole boys--while he's pushing policies that completely fuck over working class families in Louisiana--is pretty goddamn pathetic.