Californication

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This article is about the portmanteau word "Californication". For the Red Hot Chili Peppers album, see Californication (album), and for the song, see Californication (song)

Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. state of Oregon during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The stickers said "Don't Californicate Oregon" in reference to the ongoing influx of Californians into Oregon. This shift was brought about largely by the completion of California Interstate 5 in 1964. Prior to that time, the main route into Oregon from California was through the twisty, two-lane Oregon Highway 99. Towns including: Medford, Eugene and Portland have tripled or more in size since 1964, and this population shift has been added to by the massive movement of both legal and illegal immigrants into the West Coast states from south of the border.