A confederate flag license plate for Florida???

[Cyrano]

At present, FL has more that 60 license plates and you can select any one you want.

However, some dinosaur state congressman from a "Deliverance" district of the state wants one more. He wants to add a confederate flag license plate to our array of "plates that make a statement."

Given that our Governor, Charlie Christ, is on the short list of possible VPs to run with McCain, who knows what will happen?

The particular idiot sponsoring this plate is calling it a "Southern Heritage" license plate. Where have we heard that shit before? Normal human beings call it a symbol of racism.

I doubt whether it will ever come about, but who knows? After all, we're talking about Florida -- the state that prevented President Gore from taking office in 2000.

As Michael Corleone said in "Godfather III," "Every time I think I've gotten out, they pull me back in." Hopefully, one moron won't succeed in pulling us back into the past.

[DemoTex]

1. SC is way ahead in this department!

[bbinacan]

5. NC too

http://www.ncdot.org/dmv/vehicle_services/licenseplates/specializedSearch.html?plateType=1&pickPlate=9

[onethatcares]

2. yup, that's floriduh,

where the fcat reigns and the insurance companies complain. I just can't figure out my adopted state and I've been here 35 years.

[Krueg235]

3. The symbol is purely unpatriotic.

To embrace the division of the country.

[DarkTirade]

4. Yet one more reason I'm glad I just left that state.

[UALRBSofL]

6. I wonder if the noose is still at the state capital

In Tallahassee? I haven't heard much about it lately.

[JoePhilly]

9. Agree ... see my post below ...

[iamjoy]

7. Should Have Bonnie Blue Flag

if anything, we whould have a Bonnie Blue Flag license plate before a Confederate Battle Flag plate.

It's use pre-dates the Civil War, so it is more a "heritage" flag than the other, and it stands for independence without the tint of racism.

[JoePhilly]

8. Gee, its so subtile .... maybe they should go all the way ....

If they're going to be racists ... at least have the balls to go all the way.

[Cyrano]

10. Yep. Sure looks like "Southern Heritage" to me.

[POAS]

11. Maybe they could have one with

a picture of Lincoln to balance things out!

[dflprincess]

12. Southern heritage? In Florida?

How many people living in Florida today had ancestors that lived there in 1860s? In fact, how many had parents or grandparents that lived there? I though Florida was where aging Yankess went to live when they decided they couldn't stand another winter in Minnesota (or New York, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, all of Canda, etc)

[Cyrano]

13. That's southern FL. Northern FL is an extension of Alabama and rural Georgia.