The process where the children of Northern transplants to the South, especially from Michigan, adapt to Southern culture and southern drawl, often to the disgust of their parents.
I regret leaving Ann Arbor for Birmingham, my son has an annoying drawl, eats gross food, wears comfort colors and khaki shorts, and wants to go to Bama instead of Umich; I am worried that demichiganization will affect my younger children as well.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)