I think the racial content of it is actually much more prominent than maybe it seems now ann contemporary readings of it, if that doesn't sound too pretentious. She's frequently shown holding a banjo. Her patoiis the word. It's frequently used to describe the way she speaks. I think iis supposed to be distinctly african american. But dum ye. Anybody who's my age is intimately familiar with ragtime scot joplin,. because it was everywhere when we were kids.