Hogwaller

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Hogwaller is a pejorative description for any town or similar place, much like Podunk, that is populated by hillbillies and their farm animals.

[edit] Development of the usage

The word is of unknown origin, but it appears to have developed as a portrayal of some parts of the American rural South no later than 1915, when a syndicated column called "The Hogwallow News" can be documented as running in some American newspapers.^[1]

The connotations appealed to the creators of the Charlottesville, Virginia-based "bluegrock" band The Hogwaller Ramblers.