Bubbafication

English Etymology From en Bubba fication. Noun - en pejorative The process of making or becoming less sophisticated and/or more characteristic of the culture of the rural United States. en 2000 Christina Waters http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.08.00/dining-0010.html Such a deal Metro Santa Cruz 8 March - 15 March 2000 Part of this love of fat, fast food comes from what I call the Bubbafication of America. Think of Bubba as Homer Simpson without the sophistication. en Alan Peppard Kinky tweaks Dubya https://web.archive.org/web/20160304231928/http://inthenews.unt.edu/sites/default/files/PDF/2004/4/19/04_19_2004_DMN_AlanPeppard.pdf Dallas Morning News 19 April 2004 The Bubbafication of the Oval Office – with the McNugget presidency of Bill Clinton and the boots and rodeo-buckle administration of George W. Bush – has caused a cultural vacuum. en 2012 Mike Seely http://issuu.com/pnwmarketplace/docs/i20130124141311119 The War on Williamsburg Seattle Weekly Volume 37, Number 49, 5 December - 11 December 2012, page 36 Eclectic and sophisticated are hence coded as negative traits–so cool equaling not so cool–putting Swift in seemed lockstep with the anti-intellectual sentiment that's led to the astonishing 21st-Century Bubbafication of the Republican Party. en See also hillbilly, redneck en eponyms