southernification

English

Etymology

From southern +‎ -ification.

Noun

southernification (uncountable)

  1. The process by which a place begins to resemble the American South.
    • 2022 October 4, David A. Graham, “The United States of Confederate America”, in The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:
      One product of this southernification is that you can now find rebel flags hanging in states like Michigan (which lost 13,000 sons in service of the Union cause), Ohio (31,000), Wisconsin (11,000), and Pennsylvania (27,000).
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