The NYTimes has a great graphic showing which counties voted more for both parties between 2004 and 2008. (It is on the main page of the paper, I can't seem to find a specific URL). The amazing thing is that the only areas of Republican gains seem to be south Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Appalachians, especially in eastern Kentucky and Eastern Tenn. Obviously this economically marginal parts of the country share something.
You can't have a sexually explicit license plate in Virginia, but you can have an anti-Muslim one . If the Department of Motor Vehicles is going to let people praise certain religions or ethnicities on their license plates, it also must let people denigrate individuals of those faiths and nationalities. That's the opinion of a Circuit Court judge, who ruled last week that part of the DMV's guidelines governing vanity tags is unconstitutional. The ruling stemmed from an appeal from an Iraq War veteran who disagreed with the state's decision last year to revoke his personalized plates, which read "ICUHAJI." "Haji" is a common and often derogatory term for Arabs used by U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The veteran's attorney, however, said his client did not intend to offend anyone. Judge John W. Brown wrote in his ruling that the DMV must either return the license plates - which can be read, "I see you, Ha...
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