[ConorMacNessa]

In a 1st Amendment analysis, I perceive no difference between a "Sons of the Confederacy" license plate and a "Choose Life" license plate. The states have just about all authorized individually selected license plates, reflecting both membership in various organizations and the particular thought or sentiments of the vehicle owner. It has become a forum for the discussion of ideas just as surely as a newspaper, a political advert, or even this forum.

There's a lot more to the War Between the States than slavery. I am descended from Irish Famine refugees who were transported to America under virtually the same conditions as African slaves and received just as harsh treatment in the coal mines of Pennsylvania as slaves picking cotton in the South.

We - the Conservatives - recognize the right of all to free discourse. The Left squelches by any means possible any speech that it finds objectionable - like Confederate flags, et cetera, ad nauseam.

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

[jmacusa]

That ain’t the Stars And Bars on either side of that picture you put up there now is it?

[PLMerite]

“Sons of the Confederacy”

It’s Sons of Confederate Veterans (of which I used to be a member) that does the license plates. “Sons of the Confederacy” is a different outfit, and IIRC, Klan-ish.

[DiogenesLamp]

It is my understanding that many Irish who were fleeing the famine were grabbed coming off the boat and pressed into Union service.

They were sent to fight people who had done them no wrong by the Government which supposedly didn't believe in slavery.