Deedee Garcia Blase (R-AZ) forms the National Tequila Party in the hopes of motivating would-be Latino voters to get out to the polls in 2012 in response to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the Tea Party. Note that Garcia Blase is Republican, and note that National Tequila Party doesn’t overtly identify with either the Left or the Right (increasingly, Latinos are demonstrating that they are not the monolithic group of people U.S. society has made it out to be–in race, ethnicity, culture, class, or politics).
The National Tequila Party comes in the wake of other parties which have appealed to minority groups on the grounds of “talking back” to national discourses: Corey Dade’s “Identity Politics: A Brief History”
