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Excellent news from Virginia! Now how do we get these plates in Florida?

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Good news bump!

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Owen Yates, of the Mechanicsville chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, displays his new Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate, encased in a theft-proof bracket, on his car Monday in Richmond.

[krodriguesdc]

God Bless America...

I wish I had relatives from The Confederacy!

I'd apply for that plate in a fraction of a second!

[wardaddy]

Do you guys still have the right to life plates down there?

[RicocheT]

I, personally, have no fight with Jeff Ellett over his new, Confederate VA license plate. But if he comes up here to Milwaukee and makes a wrong turn on the north side of town, his red-and-gray pickup is going to have some bullet holes in it.

[ravinson]

But U.S. District Judge Jackson L. Kiser ruled in favor of the group in January 2001, on the grounds that Virginia's refusal to issue the tag because of its Confederate flag logo amounted to discrimination against the SCV, and violated the group's right to free speech.

Isn't it great that the Confederates lost the war so that all Americans still have the liberties that the Confederates were trying to deny to some (eg. the women whom Jefferson Davis threatened to shoot during the Richmond bread riots of 1863)?

[stands2reason]

Crud. I assume you have to be a Virginian, too? My peeps left the state in the 19th century...

[sweetliberty]

That is terrific. I'd love to see that throughout the south. I just returned from a trip to Colorado where my confederate flag t-shirts attracted a lot of attention...but not so positive. My first gas stop in the state, the guy at the counter asked me if that meant I was a racist. I said "no." He said he had a friend who always got mad when he saw the confederate flag because it meant the person was a racist. I told him that anybody who believes that obviously is more reactionary than informed. That shut him up. Then I got called a redneck because of another shirt I wore with the flag and roses on it.

[Moose4]

Virginia's got more personalized license plates for more different things than anyplace else in the country, I believe. There are plates for every college in the state (and a lot from out-of-state), fraternal organizations, save the environment, the upcoming Jamestown quadricentennial in 2007, you name it, they have a plate for it! Boy it's good to see my home state do the right thing and issue those SCV plates.

Now if we could just get 'em down here in South Carolina and really make the NAACP go nuts!

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[pittsburgh gop guy]

What next, a license plate for "Sons of the Nazis" with a swastika on it?

Flame away, the South lost.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Now how do we get these plates in Florida?"

Half the bumper stickers at any gun show refer in some positive way to the Confederacy.

[crystalk]

Can we get the plates if we DIDN'T have an ancestor who was a confederate veteran, just so we didn't have one who fought for the North either?

[Dante3]

It's part of our history even if some groups want to force everyone to pretend it isn't.