The Widespread Occurrence of White Supremacist, Treasonous, and Pro-Slavery License Plates

The United States sure is a strange country:

[John] Adams runs the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Florida. What he wants to express on his license plate is his affinity with the Confederacy. A few years ago he designed a plate that reads "Confederate Heritage," with a rebel flag in the center.

It's a similar design currently on license plates in nine other states, including Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

You read these stories now and again where Israelis take issue with some street or town square in Palestine or whatnot being named after a "martyr" who killed Israeli civilians. It's conventional to fight back with citations to some Israeli monument or other to an Irgun guy. But at least Israelis and Palestinians are genuinely in a state of conflict. The Civil War is over and American public culture generally avows the principle that abiding by election results is good, armed rebellion against the US government is bad, and chattel slavery is very bad. Nonetheless monuments to the idea of launching an armed rebellion against the US government when a political party hostile to chattel slavery wins an election are incredibly widespread.