So a few years ago, a group (of hicks) called the Sons of Confederate Veterans started a campaign to get a new specialty Florida license plate on the road. The group was tasked with finding 30,000 Floridians who would support the tag (pictured), and it took them a full three years to find them and raise the $60,000 required for the state legislation to greenlight the plate. The state has more or less ignored their requests, and now the group is suing. Apparently they are, in fact, bright enough to do that. The SCV say that the plate is not racist, but their claims run contrary to popular opinion, which associates the confederate flag with racism. Seeing as how the Confederacy basically fought the civil war so it could keep the institution of slavery, I side with the vox populi on this one.
WHERE I STAND: Can't they choose some other, less offensive FL specialty tag? Like NASCAR, Save the whales, or the already existing veterans plate? Regardless, I can tell you one thing- ambiguously racist license plates will do nothing for our already slumping tourist trade.
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