Mexifornia (alsoCalexico orCalifaztlán) is aportmanteau ofMexico andCalifornia.

Mexifornia refers to what some see as theMexicanization orHispanicization of theU.S. state of California as a result of increased documented and undocumentedmigration ofMexican and otherHispanic people into California and the transformation of many aspects of theculture of the state.

Mexifornia is seen as a state level version of what is now known asAmexica, the merging ofAmerica and Mexico;

"The United States of "Amexica" share more than a border and a common heritage: both sides welcome the benefits of trade but struggle with the pressures of growth".Time magazine.^[1]

This is a topic of a heated debate between the advocates ofamnesty forillegal immigrants on one side and those wishing to enforceimmigration laws on the other side.

• Mexifornia is the main setting of the cartoonBordertown

• Anti-Mexican sentiment
• Chicano
• Chicano Movement
• Chicano nationalism
• Immigration to the United States
• La Raza
• Reconquista (Mexico)
• Demographics of California
• Southern Border Region (California)
• Mexicali

• ^ "A Country of 24 Million".Time magazine, vol. 157, no. 23, p. 46, June 11, 2001.
• ^Mexifornia: A State of Becoming byVictor Davis HansonISBN 1-893554-73-2
• ^Mexifornia: A State of Confusion a Commentary byWalter A. Ewing, Ph.D
• ^MacLachlan, Colin M.; Jaime E. Rodriguez O. (1980).The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 0-520-04280-8.

• Booknotes interview with Victor Davis Hanson onMexifornia: A State of Becoming, September 28, 2003.

• Culture of California
• Culture of Mexico
• Mexican-American culture in California
• 1990s neologisms

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