Hillary Clinton's on-again, off-again southern accent cropped up again last week in South Carolina, but according to ThinkProgress, it's wrong to poke fun at her for it.

Clinton has a habit of changing accents depending on her location and their political utility, ranging from middle American to southern to New York.

ThinkProgress, the blog of left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, found this mockery of Clinton problematic and reached out to linguistics expert Robin Dodsworth, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. Dodsworth explained that Clinton is a "target," and that her attempt to "fit in" and "get people to like her" was perfectly natural: