Mexifornia

English

Etymology

Blend of Mexico +‎ California

Proper noun

Mexifornia

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