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southernification

southernification noun: the process by which a place begins to resemble the American South.

Noun

southernification (uncountable)

  1. 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...

Origin of southernification

From southern + -ification.

Questions about southernification

What does southernification mean?
Southernification means the process by which a place begins to resemble the American South.
What part of speech is southernification?
Southernification is a noun.

Words near southernification in the dictionary

  1. southern yellow pines
  2. Southern-fried
  3. Southerndown
  4. southerner
  5. southerners
  6. southernification
  7. southernisation
  8. southernise
  9. southernised
  10. southernises
  11. southernish

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