Amexica
n.— «Charles Truxillo of the University of New Mexico predicts that by 2080 the southwestern states of the United States and the northern states of Mexico will form La Republica del Norte (The Republic of the North), Various writers have referred to the southwestern United States plus northern Mexico as “MexAmerica” or “Amexica” or “Mexifornia,” “We are all Mexicans in this valley,” a former county commissioner of El Paso, Texas, declared in 2001.» —“The Hispanic Challenge” by Samuel P. Huntington Foreign Policy Mar. 1, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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