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Amexica n. Viva Amexica. Well, not just yet. The North American Free Trade Agreement has changed the way shippers in the United States view Mexico, but only a few are responding strategically with logistics plans targeted to the large but volatile Mexican market. [English Mexico United States Politics] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

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. [English Mexico United States Politics] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

anchor baby n. Holtzman said there should be “no more underground economy” and “no more anchor babies,” a term for children of legal and illegal immigrants who are U.S. citizens by virtue of being born in this country. [English United States Politics] [full cite] (Jan. 10, 2006)

anchor baby n. Next year the nativists will attack babies, or as they so eloquently refer to them as: “anchor babies.”…Let me clarify though, they don’t mean white babies, just the brown ones.…Color is important here because the 14th amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution to insure that the children of slaves, who were black, were given citizenship by the states, who were run by whites. That’s why it was added, but no where does it say that that is its sole intended use, or that it cannot apply in any other context namely to children of immigrant parents. [English Politics Race] [full cite] (Nov. 27, 2006)

anti-powerfulism n. That movement formed originally around anti-globalization activism and was consolidated through the opposition to the Iraq war. Its common thread is a certain kind of anti-Americanism and perhaps more generally a sort of “anti-powerfulism,” which can be defined as the instinctual opposition to all who are powerful: the United States in the first instance, but the World Bank, WTO, etc. as well. [English Politics] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2005)

Australian ballot n. An Australian ballot/closed vote followed and the tally was 50-20 in favor of tabling the articles.…While many lawmakers, and other interested parties, are paying close attention to whether school budgets are passed, others are watching whether communities choose what is known as Australian balloting over traditional floor discussion and votes. [English Politics] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

auto fraudo n. Democrats passed the Motor Voter law in 1993 (in the meeting I started hearing the old Republican name for it, “auto fraudo”), which permanently loosened the rules on mailed-in voter registration. [English Automobiles & Transportation Government Politics Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 30, 2008)

awkward squad n. The negotiations have been caught in a squeeze between Mr Bolton, and a group of countries that one diplomat referred to as “the awkward squad,” which includes Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela. [English Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 22, 2005)

axis of devil n. Although the axis of devil countries as they say in Iran (U.S., Britain, and Israel) talk tough, Iran as one of the members of axis of evil (as George Bush called Iran) talks tough as well. [Iran Politics] [full cite] (Jan. 26, 2006)

baby dip n. The department declined Embassy’s request to speak with the newcomers, affectionately known in Ottawa as the “baby dips.” Still, officials offered some interesting stats about the novice diplomats: the average age is approximately 28 and this year’s pool includes three couples and three PhDs. [English Politics] [full cite] (Mar. 28, 2006)

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