Austin, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – A soldier won’t be featured on Texas license plates designed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. This after a vote from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board which rejected the plate’s design.
The plate featured a soldier carrying a Texas regiment’s special flag at the Civil War Battle of Antietam in 1862. But the controversy centered on how the design is similar to an existing plate for BikeTexas.org.that raises money for BikeTexas.org, not on whether it celebrates 19th-century Texans fighting to preserve slavery.
That group’s executive director says because the designs are so similar, sales of the bike Texas plate could suffer because it could become associated with “controversy” stirred by sons of confederate veterans.
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