The Commissioner of Agriculture is supporting a new license plate which will raise money for the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. They have been attempting to create a new plate since 2007. The new plate design was inspired by a painting by John Paul “Jack” Stain. The painting depicts a Confederate Soldier carrying the Texas Wigfall Flag which has been viewed as a non-offensive option to the Confederate Flag that was originally submitted in the past .They estimate 1,000 plates will be sold within the first year. A portion of the sales will go to the Department of Agriculture.
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a controversial case involving North Carolina's specialty license plates featuring the Confederate flag. According to WUNC, this decision leaves in place a lower court's ruling that the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can refuse to issue plates…
There is a national effort to remove all of the Confederate monuments. This is happening after there was a fatal incident in Charlottesville, Virginia. There is a Six Flags in Texas that has a Confederate flag flying over it. The park recently replaced all of the flags and put American…
Bans on confederate flags can be absurd in certain circumstances. While the purpose of California's ban of the confederate flag was to prevent state sponsored displays of bigotry, its effects were much more far reaching. For example, in an art fair in Fresno, one man's historic painting regarding the Civil…
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