AOC Blasts Fellow Democrats for Resisting Term Latinx: 'Not About Your Reelection Prospects'

[JohnSJ]

12. Whether I end in an "O" or an "A". Here was MY SENATOR, Alex Padilla's view:

This was the response Padilla gave: “That’s [Rep. Gallego’s] opinion, and I respect it. I don’t completely agree. Here you say it and it just throws me back to the years and years of debates, not just in college by the way, of Hispanic versus Latino versus Chicano versus Mexican American, when we get caught up in the terminology. It comes across in different ways to different people in different parts of the country. Latinx, look, for the younger generation especially, it is purposeful. It is more than just symbolic. In the Spanish language, you have feminine versus masculine nouns, and the move to Latinx is one way of saying, ‘You know what, if we’re all equal, let’s let our language reflect that.'”

“[Latinx] is relatively new for some. I’d be interested in the cross tabs, if you will, the underlying data in polling. For older voters, maybe not nearly as popular. For younger voters, which is the growing part of the Latino electorate, they embrace it,” Padilla added.

And this is where we will say that Padilla’s answer is somewhat accurate if you look at recent data and cross tabs. As Pew noted last year, the term is no way near being popular in use, but when broken down by older and younger groups, there is clearly greater awareness with younger people and increased use of the term."

https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/04/10/padillalatinx/