DIXIE BACKLASH: There’s Been A MAJOR Increase In Confederate Flag License Plates

Call it a backlash, call it WHATEVER YOU WANT…

But the numbers don’t lie.

There’s been a HUGE increase in Confederate flag license plates on Tennessee roads. In fact, the number is at its highest in over a decade.

I bet I know why…

According to Daily Mail:

The number of Confederate flag license plates on Tennessee roads has reached its highest point in a decade.

Data from the Tennessee Deparment of Revenue shows that 3,273 of the license plates benefiting the Sons of Confederate Veterans were active at the end of the 2018 fiscal year, The Tennessean reports.

While that total may appear small, it represents a 72 percent increase from the end of the 2015 fiscal year, when the national debate of the display of Confederate flags reached a fever pitch following the massacre of nine black worshippers slain at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Since then, the left has gone on a crusade to tear down and erase all remnants of Confederate history.

And while I FORCEFULLY condemn the DISGUSTING actions of white supremacist Dylan Roof… I think it’s wrong to entirely affiliate a long-standing symbol of Southern identity with his despicable hatred.

A spokesperson for the Sons of Confederate Veterans said the spike in its plate’s popularity likely stems from what the groups believes to be recent attacks on Confederate history.

‘Every time that some of our history that we’re so proud of has been attacked, people have gone out, and probably some members who had license plates but quit renewing have gone back and put them back on their vehicle,’ Division Commander James Patterson told the Tennessean.

After the Charleston shooting, Republican Gov Bill Haslam expressed support for discontinuing the license plates, but then later backed away from supporting Democratic legislation that would have done so.

Roof, who sentenced to death last summer, had posted a photo of himself with the flag online before committing the massacre.

The Tennessee plate was introduced in 2004, but data on the number of active plates isn’t available until 2008.

A little more than half of the $61.50 annual fee for the plates is allocated to the plate’s respective beneficiary, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Highway Fund.

The Tennessee division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans received around $57,700 in revenue from the plates in the 2018 fiscal year, according to the state’s revenue department.

Those funds help fund the chapter’s ongoing legal fight against the city of Memphis over the removal of Confederate statues, Patterson said.

While the left will use this as “proof” that “Racism and bigotry” run rampant in Trump’s America, I have no doubt that the increase in Confederate plates is a DIRECT response to the removal of our national history.