I was thinking about this recently during a wokie rant about how black names are hired way less - but in all of the examples that were cited, it was always comparing fairly normal/strong "white names" to the most r-slurred "black" names possible.
I never saw any examples of Cleetus or Bubba being looked or other white-trash names.
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Someone linked something like that in the slatestatcodex culture war discussion a long time ago and they basically found what you suspect, it’s more about class than about race (the study everyone cites sort of accidentally used classy white names and trashy black names) but when you compare classy white to classy black, or trashy white to trashy black, the race differences largely go away, and the effect is all about classy vs trashy.
I’ve tried to find it since then and haven’t been able to. I think it wasn’t published as an academic paper but rather something some dude did on his blog and wrote about.
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