Mexifornia

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of Mexico +‎ California

Proper noun[edit]

Mexifornia

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  1. (US, sometimes derogatory) California, viewed as increasingly Mexican in population and culture, especially due to illegal immigration.
    • 1975, Alfred Bester, The computer connection, page 11:
      He spent a few months with me in Mexifornia […]
    • 2008, Jennifer Ingraham Bryant, Vigilance on the Border, page 95:
      This was demonstrated by references to California as Mexifornia, complaints about hearing Spanish in stores and restaurants, and seeing, "so few white people in Wal-Mart" (CP6).
    • 2005, Samuel Heath, The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 2005, page 210:
      the millions of illegal alien barbarians in Mexifornia
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