Posted on 12/11/2004 10:58:12 AM PST by Log
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state slogan "Heart of Dixie," a source of pride to some and embarrassment to others, is disappearing from more Alabama license plates every year.
One-third of the groups that promote distinctive and collegiate license plates now choose to leave the slogan off their tags.
The standard state license plate still has "Heart of Dixie," but it's reduced to letters one-sixteenth of an inch high and it's placed in the bottom corner of the tag where it's barely visible to passing motorists.
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HER children will be SOUTHRON & will fight for & WIN dixie LIBERTY &
your great grandchildren will DENY that there was EVER a northernborn in their family.
just thought you'd want to know what the future holds.
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Oh well if it comes from the French, then that is offensive. ;)
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Sad to say, but the truth does hurt.
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Yes we are!!!!!!!
BTW - Welcome to the South
Welllll....I don't want to "catch up with the rest of the world"!!!!
I like us just fine!
I understand what you mean about the hatred.....I'm reading on the thread you pinged me to, I feel like I need a shower.
While I understand your point, it is going to be pretty difficult for any future generations to deny their Yankee heritage, since my husband's family cemetary in New Hampshire is also the family cemetary of the family of Nathan Hale.
No problem!
Well, most of Louisiana has a heavy French background. However, these Cajuns are the type of Frenchies you don't want to mess with. I think all the good fighting French moved to Louisiana hundreds of years ago.
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Thank you.
I have been very fotunate in that I have not encountered anything but welcome from the locals, who I was warned have a tendency to not welcome "come here's."
My husband jokes we came here seeking political asylum from the socialist cesspool that Delaware has become, and that is why we have been welcomed.
a LOT of my family not only won't talk about him BUT also some of the family deny he was ever ALIVE.
the same will VERY likely be true of your descendants, come dixie LIBERTY.
btw, Harvey W. was the ONLY one who was a turncoat; the other 13 lads were PURE REBEL.
btw, the HATRED exposed on the other thread is the REAL REASON that the war will never end until dixie is FREE.
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That's just a lie. The African-Americans would never put up with it.
Don't some of the newer Bama plates have "The stars rained down on Alabama" or something weird like that?
The heritage is actually my husband's and my daughter's. My family did not show up on American soil until the 20th century.
You are right, we are one nation and we should all remember that.
I admit that we did choose to move to this part of Virginia primarily because Delaware no longer reflected what is important to our family. Working in politics as long as I did, I should have seen it coming, but it wasn't until we became parents that it literally slapped us upside the head. I tried hard to be part of the solution, but it exploded so fast, that I became considered part of the problem.
Sure, that's why NASA has an installation in Huntsville, AL.
As a Texas resident and naturalized Texan who knows better, I sure look forward to the day that that ignorant "university" up the road gets shut down so that the funds it sucks down can be better applied to more pressing state needs, and those stammering stumblebums who used to attend it can melt back into the woods where they belong.
I just so cannot stand ignorance and lack of native intelligence being so put on display.
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