Backport PR #60701 on branch 2.3.x (TST(str dtype): Resolve xfail in test_value_counts.py) #21355

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Linux-32-bit	19m 53s
Linux-Musl	22m 17s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	42m 39s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	44m 24s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	55m 58s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	45m 34s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	29m 15s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	31m 1s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	29m 0s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	29m 6s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	46m 27s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	51m 14s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	44m 9s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	40m 34s
python-dev (macOS-13)	28m 46s
python-dev (macOS-14)	12m 59s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	23m 38s
python-dev (windows-latest)	25m 56s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	57m 49s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	32m 10s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	33m 22s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	1h 0m 1s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	52m 34s
Locale: zh_CN	32m 56s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	32m 43s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	33m 18s
Locale: it_IT	33m 13s
Downstream Compat	6m 46s
Numpy Dev	22m 30s
Pyarrow Nightly	25m 39s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	43m 27s
Future infer strings	45m 2s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	36m 19s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	50m 38s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	29m 26s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	27m 59s
Minimum Versions	27m 22s
Pypy	7m 58s
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