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I'm seeing lots of references to "Obama should come to the hollers" or "I remember visiting my grandparents in the holler". What does "holler" mean culturally? Is it like a village where people live, or a central meeting place for people who live nearby? What's the resonance of a holler?
A word after a word after a word is power. -- Margaret Atwood
by tmo on Mon May 12, 2008 at 05:46:50 PM PDT
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in either the hills or the mountains where we live. My parent's house is not literally in a hollow, but it sits a couple of hills over from a road everyone knows, and someone might call it the hollow (pronounced holler) over yonder from that road. If I want Obama to visit the little towns off the beaten path, back in the hills where I'm from or the mountains where my extended family lives, I might say that he needs to come to the hollows (again, pronounced holler).
John McCain traded your $10 job for $5 and called it a bargain.
by dawnt on Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:04:58 PM PDT
by eXtina on Mon May 12, 2008 at 07:09:58 PM PDT
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