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Virginia governor moves to erase Confederate emblem from license plates

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe in an interview during the Paris Air Show. AP/Christophe Ena

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe in an interview during the Paris Air Show. AP/Christophe Ena
By Jim Galloway
June 23, 2015

We do not know what the future holds for such things in Georgia, where several thousand people sport them on their vehicles. But Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Tuesday that he wants the Confederate battle emblem off specialty license plates in his state. From his press release:

Our WSB Radio colleague Jamie Dupree sends word that the governor of Tennessee is of a like-minded opinion.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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