Meanings
- derogatoryuncountableThe process of making or becoming less sophisticated and/or more characteristic of the culture of the rural United States.
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.
2000, Christina Waters, “Such a deal”, in Metro Santa Cruz, 8 March - 15 March 20002 more examples
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.
2004 April 19, Alan Peppard, “Kinky tweaks Dubya”, in Dallas Morning NewsEclectic 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.
2012, Mike Seely, “The War on Williamsburg”, in Seattle Weekly, Volume 37, Number 49, 5 December - 11 December 2012, page 36
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