Bubbafication

English

Etymology

Bubba +‎ -fication

Noun

Bubbafication (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) The process of making or becoming less sophisticated and/or more characteristic of the culture of the rural United States.
   • 2000, Christina Waters, “Such a deal”, in 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.

   • 2004 April 19, Alan Peppard, “Kinky tweaks Dubya”, in Dallas Morning News:

     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.

   • 2012, Mike Seely, “The War on Williamsburg”, in 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bubbafication.