Brazilianization was popularized in Michael Lind 's book, The Next American Nation. Brazilianization is defined by Lind as a "fissioning along class lines".

"Brazilianization is symbolized by the increasing withdrawal of the white American overclass into its...world of private neighborhoods, private schools, private police, private health care, and even private roads, walled off from the spreading squalor beyond. Like a Latin American oligarchy, the rich and well connected members of the overclass can flourish in a decadent America with Third World levels of inequality and crime."-Michael Lind

Right-wing author Thomas W. Chittum, in Civil War II, argues that Brazilianization will cause civil war and Balkanization of the United States of America. Some paleoconservatives, such as Samuel Francis, use the term when talking about the problems caused by non-European immigration into America after the Immigration Act of 1965.

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