It turns out that people’s sense of race and language develops simultaneously. Meaning, a White American child would expect other White children to speak their language. But if they meet a brown child who speak proper American English, they will prefer the brown child to another White child who can’t speak English well.
Elites, therefore, united behind their shared accents and dialects, usually the language of the power elite. However, rural people cannot unite behind a single language, since they speak wildly different dialects. And so, rural resisters must unite themselves behind race and religion.
