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southernification

noun

Etymology

From southern + -ification.

  1. derived from *sunþrōnijaz✻
  2. derived from sūþerne
  3. derived from southerne
  4. suffixed as southernification — “southern + -ification”

Definitions

  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).

The neighborhood

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