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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
Tue Mar 9, 2021, 08:33 PM Mar 2021

Still True? The Klan can adopt-a-highway?

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-adopt-a-highway-sign-goes-up

Businesses, schools and churches are among the main organizations to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway (also known in some places as Sponsor-a-Highway) program. However, over the years, some Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, along with other controversial organizations, have tried to become involved–and thereby receive signs along highways acknowledging their effort. After the state of Missouri rejected a Ku Klux Klan group’s application to join the program, the white supremacist organization charged that its free-speech rights were being violated. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Missouri couldn’t prevent the KKK from participating in the Adopt-a-Highway program.
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Still True? The Klan can adopt-a-highway? (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Mar 2021 OP
Hopefully those sections of highway won't get extra trash dumped oasis Mar 2021 #1
Ted Nugent has a piece of my local hard road. Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #2
I'm not sure what would have changed to make it untrue? tritsofme Mar 2021 #3

oasis

(49,376 posts)
1. Hopefully those sections of highway won't get extra trash dumped
Tue Mar 9, 2021, 08:45 PM
Mar 2021

on them because folks want to see KKK racists clean up the mess.

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