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Political quote by Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez

A taco truck in the downtown area of St. Louis, Missouri

The phrase "taco trucks on every corner" was used past the activist Marco Gutierrez, the co-founder of Latinos for Trump, on September 1, 2016, in comments that received widespread attention during the 2016 U.s. presidential elections.

During an interview with MSNBC, Gutierrez referred to his Mexican heritage, stating that "My culture is a very dominant culture, and information technology'south imposing and it'south causing bug. If you lot don't do something about it, you're going to have taco trucks on every corner." His remarks subsequently met with both sarcasm and criticism, many mocking the argument on social media and sending #TacosOnEveryCorner to the top of Twitter's list of trending topics.[1] Others expressed business organization over his remarks, stating that he was using "coded language that politicians and pundits use to become away with explicitly racist letters — from crime to immigration and terrorism." Taco trucks were used equally voter registration-information booths in Houston Texas, and a nationwide Guac the Vote campaign was launched.[2] National Public Radio (NPR) news wrote that taco trucks "at present straddle the worlds of political symbol and internet meme".[3]

Origin [edit]

The phrase originated with Marco Gutierrez, a co-founder of the group Latinos for Trump, during an interview with Joy Reid on MSNBC on September 1, 2016.

The phrase was used inside the context of a warning about the "dominance" of Mexican culture, underscoring Gutierrez's opinion that immigration should be more closely regulated.[a]

In an interview with Deutsche Welle on September 8, 2016, Gutierrez explained, "If you don't regulate the immigration, if you don't structure our communities, nosotros are going to practise any we want. We are going to take over. That is what I'one thousand trying to say and I recall what is happening with my culture is that its imposing [itself] on the American culture – and both cultures are reacting."[5]

Reactions [edit]

  • Online responses followed immediately after the interview.[6] [7] [8] [9] The Associated Press described the online response every bit a "social media onslaught".[six] On September three, 2016, #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner was the elevation hashtag on Twitter.[10]
  • A taco truck voter registration drive in Houston collection a dramatic increment in the urban center'due south voter registration. Houston Chronicle[11] reported that the effort "...is a trend that prompted Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart to call a news briefing Wed, just a few blocks from the Tacos Tierra Caliente truck, to encourage people to vote early on and avoid the crowds." Houston Chronicle[12] later reported that "As registration closed, Harris County's voter roster had grown by more than than vi percentage since 2014, the steepest increase in sixteen years. More than 323,890 new names take been added."[thirteen] The initiative was widely covered in local, national, and international news media.[14] [15] [16] [17]
  • The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce started a Guac the Vote campaign to use taco trucks to register voters and to appear at polling stations on election twenty-four hours. The entrada name is a reference to guacamole.[b] [19] [xx] [21] [22] [23] [24]
  • Gustavo Arellano et al. started the satirical political Taco Truck Political party. LA Weekly quoted Arellano as stating "It is perfect that the election has been boiled down to this one essential binary — do you want tacos or no tacos".[25] [26] [27]
  • Several owners of taco trucks used the opportunity to criticize and protest Trump. Nancy Paz, owner of Detroit taco truck Tacos El Caballo, parked her truck beyond the street from a Trump rally two days afterwards the remarks.[28] Meanwhile, Osiris Hoil, possessor of Washington-area Mexican restaurant District Taco, welcomed the idea of taco trucks on every corner, responding with a elementary "Why not?" Hoil founded District Taco as a food truck in Rosslyn, Virginia earlier somewhen opening up several brick-and-mortar restaurants in the Washington area.[29]

By political figures [edit]

  • During a conference call with academy students on September viii, 2016, Hillary Clinton stated "And in case you're wondering, I'd love information technology if there were taco trucks on every corner!"[30]
  • During a visit to Los Angeles on September 9, 2016, former president of Mexico Vicente Play a joke on visited a taco truck while being interviewed for the radio show El Show de Piolín and stated "Los tacos volition make America great — not the other guy".[31] [32] [33]
  • On September 13, 2016 advancement news website Vox quoted Donald Trump entrada spokesperson Jon Cordova as maxim "Marco Gutierrez is NOT a surrogate for the Donald Trump entrada and just represents his own views, not the position of the campaign."[34] [35]
  • On September 15, 2016 at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Hillary Clinton stated "By the way, I personally think a taco truck on every corner sounds admittedly delicious" as part of her speech there.[36]

By location [edit]

  • The Colorado Democratic Party used a taco truck parked outside of campaign headquarters of Donald Trump in Denver to annals voters.[37] [38] On September seven, 2016 the truck was vandalized.[39] [40]
  • In Detroit, the Hillary Clinton campaign announced a Voter Registration on Every Corner- Southwest Taco Trucks Edition event involving eight taco trucks for September 16, 2016.[41] [42] [43]
  • In Houston, communications firm Rigsby Hull and Mi Familia Vota organized a two-week voter registration bulldoze, enlisting taco trucks citywide as distribution centers for voter registration cards and bilingual voter information guides. The drive started September 27, 2016: National Voter Registration Day and ran through Oct 11, 2016.[44] [45]
  • Taco trucks were used in political events in Arizona [46] and Detroit.[47] [48] [49] [l]

In popular culture [edit]

  • Sales of the song "I Dear You More than Than Tacos" by the Latin music band Carne Cruda increased. The song is about "a man'south honey then profound that he would give his tacos and burritos to someone else".[51] Univision reported that the song "has become something of an anthem in the wake of the #TacoTruckOnEveryCorner controversy."[51]
  • On October 21, 2016 American singer and musical theatre actress Leslie Kritzer released a satirical song titled "Taco Truck Invasion".[52] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Kritzer battles the derogatory statement fabricated by Gutierrez, who also founded Latinos for Trump, with humor by embodying her alter-ego Riff-Tina, dancing through the streets with a taco truck by her side."[53]
  • In May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, the satirical cartoonist Jorie Henrickson published the "Alternating Universe Taco Trucks Haiku."

Polling [edit]

In a survey of 1,898 American adults conducted on September 3, 2016, marketplace inquiry firm YouGov reported that 58% would be happy "if in that location was a taco truck on your corner".[54]

In an stance poll of 744 likely voters conducted in Florida from September four to half dozen, 2016, polling firm Public Policy Polling reported that "tacos and taco trucks are pretty pop among voters who have opinions on them."[55] [56] The house reported tacos had a +36% net favorability, and taco trucks had a +xxx% internet favorability, with a "pretty significant party divide on the 'issue' of taco trucks".[55]

See also [edit]

  • A chicken in every pot – 1928 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Herbert Hoover[57]
  • Taco Trucks At Every Mosque
  • Discrimination in the U.s. § Bigotry confronting immigrants
  • Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
  • Emigration from Mexico
  • Hispanic and Latino Americans
  • List of political slogans
  • List of U.S. presidential campaign slogans
  • Political symbolism – used to correspond a political standpoint
  • Taco stand up – a nutrient stall, nutrient cart, taquería or eatery that specializes in tacos and other Mexican dishes

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ "While on All in With Chris Hayes on Thursday evening, Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez warned of the danger of allowing Mexican culture to enter the U.s. unabated."[4]
  2. ^ "On Tuesday, the Hispanic Sleeping room, which says information technology represents 4.ane 1000000 Hispanic-owned businesses nationwide, took things a pace farther, announcing a "Guac the Vote" entrada to encourage taco truck owners to annals customers to vote and then to park outside polling sites on Election Day in a symbolic, if tasty, protest of Gutierrez'due south comments."[18]

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  3. ^ Chappell, Bill (three September 2016). "Taco Truck Owner Racks Up Sales At Trump Event In Detroit". NPR . Retrieved 2016-09-03 . Donald Trump'due south visit to an African American church in Detroit brought both cheers and protests Sat — merely 1 of the star attractions was a taco truck. 1 of the humble vehicles, which now straddle the worlds of political symbol and net meme, was parked outside.
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  19. ^ "Latino business organization group starts 'Guac The Vote' effort". NBC News. 2016-09-06. Retrieved 2016-09-07 . The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is trying to turn the "taco trucks on every corner" annotate made by a Donald Trump supporter into a voter registration campaign dubbed Guac The Vote.
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  22. ^ "'Guac the Vote' Will Register Voters at Taco Trucks on Every Corner". The Daily Repast. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-12 . Latinos for Trump made headlines this month when ane if its members warned voters of an "ominous future" with "taco trucks on every corner." The hilarious blunder has unintentionally led the mode for a new motion called "Guac the Vote" to go voters participating in the coming ballot.
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  55. ^ a b "Presidential Race Up for Grabs in Florida". Public Policy Polling. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2016-09-08 . In the wake of last week's controversy nosotros find that tacos and taco trucks are pretty popular among voters who accept opinions on them. Tacos have a +36 cyberspace favorability with 47% of voters seeing them positively to 11% with a negative view. And taco trucks have a +30 net favorability with 42% of voters seeing them positively to 12% with a negative view. There's a pretty meaning party divide on the 'upshot' of taco trucks though- they're at +43 with Democrats (51/eight) but but +7 with Republicans (23/xvi)
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Farther reading [edit]

External media
Audio
audio icon "Taco Trucks". BBC World Service. 2016-09-10.
Video
video icon "Follow The Hashtag: #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner". Deutsche Welle. 2016-09-10.
video icon This Calendar week in WTF: Latinos for Trump on YouTube, 2016-09-12, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
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  • LaMagna, Maria (2016-09-02). "The existent reason we don't have taco trucks on every corner". MarketWatch.
  • Brammer, John Paul (2016-09-02). "'Taco trucks on every corner'? That'd really make America bully again". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
  • Jessica, Floum; Palomino, Joaquin (2016-09-02). "Data: SF at no risk of a taco truck on every street corner". San Francisco Chronicle.
  • Popken, Ben (2016-09-02). "It's actually pretty difficult work to get a taco truck 'on every corner'". CNBC.
  • Cromwell, Rich (2016-09-02). "7 Reasons America Needs A Taco Truck On Every Corner". The Federalist.
  • Spence, Shay (2016-09-02). "The 10 Best Taco Trucks in America (That We Wish Were on Every Corner)". People.
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  • Gillespie, Nick (2016-09-02). "If Your Case Against Immigration Is 'You're Going To Have Taco Trucks on Every Corner,' Yous Lose, Amigo". Reason.
  • Florido, Adrian (2016-09-03). "Picture an America with #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner". Southern California Public Radio.
  • Lopez, Steve (2016-09-04). "Taco trucks on every corner? Sí, por favor". Los Angeles Times via PressReader.
  • Erb, Kelly Phillips (2016-09-05). "So You Want To Open up A Taco Truck? 11 Steps To Get Started With Your Small Business". Forbes.
  • Dvorak, Petula (2016-09-05). "Taco trucks: Every bit American as lo mein and pizza pie". Washington Mail service.
  • Ball, Molly (2016-09-06). "Taco Trucks and the Soul of America". The Atlantic.
  • Guadalupe, Patricia (2016-09-06). "Voices: Taco trucks in every corner? Where'south my cuchifrito truck?". NBC News.
  • Rehbinder, Henrik (2016-09-07). "Marcos Gutiérrez contribuye a que bounding main un hazmerreír el acercamiento de Trump a los latinos". Univision.
  • Kammer, Jerry (2016-09-08). "A Look at the Washington Post's 'Taco Truck' Snark Fest". Center for Immigration Studies.
  • Machhaus, Carolina (2016-09-08). "Trump supporter's 'taco trucks' remark sparks online anger – and hunger". Deutsche Welle.
  • Charles, J.B. (2016-09-09). "Trump campaign's taco truck gaffe underscores Latinos' political power". The Loma.
  • Wiernicki, Anna (2016-09-09). "Taco Trucks Middle Presidential Immigration Debate". KTSM-Idiot box.
  • Kelso, John (2016-09-ten). "Almost every corner in Austin has a taco truck — or wants one". Austin American-Statesman.
  • Ostaszewski, Lee (2016-09-10). "A taco truck on every corner?". MetroWest Daily News.
  • Grossman, Ron (2016-09-11). "Of taco trucks and pushcarts, and waves of American immigrants". Chicago Tribune.
  • Sen, Conor (2016-09-12). "That Taco-Truck Invasion? Don't Concord Your Breath". Bloomberg View.
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  • Tilove, Jonathan (2016-09-17). "With soaring oratory, Mayor Adler defends taco trucks on every corner". Austin American-Statesman.
  • Adler, Steve (2016-09-17). "Johnson-Jordan Dinner remarks (speech by Austin, Texas mayor)". www.mayoradler.com.

External links [edit]

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