Backport PR #60195 on branch 2.3.x (BUG (string dtype): fix where() for string dtype with python storage) #20027

Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	20m 5s
Linux-Musl	17m 48s
python-dev (macOS-13)	39m 52s
python-dev (macOS-14)	14m 13s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	23m 56s
python-dev (windows-latest)	27m 12s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	39m 55s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	53m 50s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	43m 56s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	54m 2s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	22m 50s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	26m 58s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	25m 5s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	28m 6s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	54m 25s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	58m 9s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	53m 6s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	36m 45s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	1h 5m 47s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	39m 14s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	36m 15s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	58m 14s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	1h 2m 26s
Locale: zh_CN	38m 4s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	38m 29s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	39m 37s
Locale: it_IT	38m 40s
Downstream Compat	6m 3s
Numpy Dev	21m 41s
Pyarrow Nightly	24m 31s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	47m 37s
Future infer strings	51m 51s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	41m 42s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	48m 43s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	29m 36s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	29m 21s
Minimum Versions	28m 29s
Pypy	7m 37s
	23h 14m 10s

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