southernization

alternative southernisation

1. uncountableThe process of southernizing.
2. uncountableIn particular, the adaptation of something (mainly America or its politics) to the norms and practices of the American South.

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3. uncountableThe adaptation of a society to the developments, technologies and crops of southern Asia, such as sugar, cotton, and Arabic numerals. (An analogue of westernization, suggested by historian Lynda Shaffer.)

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