Californication (word)

For other uses, see Californication.

Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966[1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho,[2] Washington,[3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma,[4][5] and Texas.[6]

It was a term popular in the 1970s and referring primarily to the "haphazard, mindless development [of land] that has already gobbled up most of Southern California",[7] which some attributed to an influx of Californians to other states in the Western United States.

  1. ^ "Books: Nosepicking Contests". Time. May 6, 1966. Archived from the original on January 11, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  2. ^ Timothy Egan (May 30, 1993). "Eastward, Ho! The Great Move Reverses". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
  3. ^ Robert Ferrigno (November 1, 1996). "Kiss My Tan Line: How Californians saved Seattle". Slate. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
  4. ^ "Californicating Oklahoma". 15 June 2009.
  5. ^ Wiseman, Paul (October 12, 2010). "More Californians reverse course and head to Oklahoma". USA Today.
  6. ^ Wiseman, Paul (October 12, 2010). "More Californians are migrating to Texas". USA Today.
  7. ^ Sandra Burton (August 21, 1972). "The Great Wild Californicated West". Time. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2007.