"Leader DeLay"??? What's up with that?

[Mullins, Bill]

>
> Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> When I moved to
> Connecticut in the late 1980s I was surprised to find that
> many people in the legal community here used the expression
> "Attorney Smith," which I had not heard before. The
> motivation is obvious: to mimic the
> "make-no-mistake-I'm-someone-important" identification that
> is standard for physicians.
>
> I don't know whether this is a regionalism or not. I suspect
> this locution is also well established in the
> African-American community.
>
>
I wonder to what extent this accounts for Revs Jackson and Sharpton.