No wonder Republicans can't give up on the war in Iraq. Some of them are still fighting the American Civil War.
Apparently they don't know they headed the winning team in the first one...
Florida Legislator Proposes 'Confederate Heritage' License Plates
Representative Donald Brown, a Republican from the Panhandle, introduced HB 1007 last week. It directs state officials to develop and issue tags that "contain an emblem or logo of Florida's historic Confederate flags and facsimiles of the buttons issued to Florida Confederate units."
The $25 surcharge for these "Confederate Heritage" tags would fund educational and historical programs offered by Sons of Confederate Veterans. A spokesman for the group tells the Tallahassee Democrat that they have 30,000 people who are ready to buy the tags if they're approved.
"It's a part of our history, whether we like it or not. I appreciate the heritage and the good things that people feel about our past."
Besides the fact that the Confederate flag is a relic of an armed rebellion against the duly established government of the United States and has no rightful place outside of cemeteries, museums and historical sites...
WHAT CONFEDERATE HERITAGE???
Estimates of the number of men who served in the Confederate armed forces range from as low as 500,000 to as high as 2 million.
Florida provided approximately 15,000 troops to the Confederacy.
Meaning that Florida troops accounted for possibly as little as 3/4 of 1%, or 0.0075, of the fighting men of the Confederacy!
DELAWARE probably has more of a Confederate heritage than Florida, and it fought with the Union!
Somebody PLEASE buy Representative Brown a history book!