The present study explores Spanish-English speakers' attitudes toward bilingual discourse in the Upstate of South Carolina. Implementing a mixed methods approach, survey data and sociolinguistic interviews targeting bilinguals' attitudes toward English-origin nonce borrowings, loanshifts, and codeswitching were examined. Quantitative analyses revealed that monolingual examples were significantly preferred over bilingual examples. Of the bilingual survey items, speakers accepted loanshifts more than nonce borrowings. Self-reported balanced bilinguals and second-generation Latinos rated lexical innovations more favorably than their counterparts. Results of the qualitative analyses indicate that the majority of participants expressed a neutral or negative opinion toward language contact phenomena, whereas a minority regarded it as an important communicative resource and a symbol of identity. It is argued that negative perceptions of bilingual discourse can be attributed to normative monolingual and monoglossic language ideologies as well as to the belief that non-standard language practices represent language degeneration. The article concludes with a call to action of informing the community of the harmful attitudes toward bilingual discourse in an effort to shift pervasive language attitudes in the Upstate and the country.