MLK and Southernisms

Our little friend Martin King Jr. was a preacher before he became a civil rights leader, so he has a way with words. If you get a chance it would be worth the reading to get a holt of his speech. There aren't any striking "Southernisms" in that particular speech, but I bet you could find some from him in other places. He's as Southern as they come. Anyway what caught my attention was something of a style.

He said, "from every hill to every molehill in Mississippi." Now I've
heard, and you have too, making a mountain outa molehill, but I ain't never
heard this one. It fits the speech but it's an odd expression. Is he making it up? If so he's true Southern.

He also said, "prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire". I can't imagine that being a word he used in every day conversation. But the funny thing is that it fits rythmically with the speech.

One thing I can identify with is the allusion to the "sweltering heat of Mississippi". You got dat right.

And what about the governor of that great state of Alabamer (known as the Beautiful) who had "words of interposition and nullification." BTW do you know who the governer is that he's refern' to?