southernification en · NOUN
Etymology
From southern + -ification.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The process by which a place begins to resemble the American South.
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).
2022 October 4, David A. Graham, “The United States of Confederate America”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023: