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Mexifornia en · PROPN

Etymology

Blend of Mexico + California.

Meanings

  1. (US, derogatory, sometimes) Derogatory name for California: a state of the United States, viewed as increasingly Mexican in population and culture, especially due to illegal immigration.
    • the millions of illegal alien barbarians in Mexifornia 2005, Samuel Heath, The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 2005, page 210:
    • He spent a few months with me in Mexifornia[…] 1975, Alfred Bester, The computer connection, page 11:
    • 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). 2008, Jennifer Ingraham Bryant, Vigilance on the Border, page 95:

Relateds

Mexifornication