Maybe so!
But there are now two Mexican-American driven foodie capitals—Tucson and San Antonio!
https://www.travelawaits.com/2864155/tucson-san-antonio-unesco-cities-of-gastronomy-heres-why/
I’m capable of cooking my own chili and tacos - it’s a fair sacrifice to make for cleaner streets, English-speaking neighborhoods, and fewer cholos running around showing their twisted, curly-fingered gang signs. It’s the same line of thinking as “we should have picked our own cotton”.