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Californification
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English
Etymology
From en California<alt:Californ(ia)> ification.
Noun
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en Californication.
en 1983 Neal Rippey Peirce; Jerry Hagstrom Oregon: Fearing Growth, Seeking Growth The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today New York, N.Y.; London w:W. W. Norton & Company 820 https://archive.org/details/bookofamericains00peirrich/page/820/mode/1up 0-393-01639-0 Oregon in the 1960s and ’70s reveled in its image as a lush paradise, sparsely populated by individualists who made no secret of their desire to protect the state from the “Californification” they feared was creeping northward.
en 2002 David Buckley Sophomore, 1983–85 R.E.M. Fiction: An Alternative Biography London w:Virgin Books part I (The Ice Age, 1979–85) 99 https://archive.org/details/remfictionaltern0000buck/page/99/mode/1up 1 85227 927 3 Mitch Easter too felt the ‘Californification’ of the popular music business was detrimental to creativity.
en 2007 July Layla Gibbon Columns https://archive.org/details/mrr_290/page/n13/mode/1up w:Maximum Rocknroll 290 [Berkeley, Claif.] 2 0743-3530 10553172 The Californification of the way I talk started a long time ago, being that my mum is from Southern California, but I have no excuses for the fact that my conversation is essentially Fast Times at Ridgemont High at all times nowadays.