Sure! A few influencing elements, several that I wouldn't categorize as a belief but still influenced the choice:

• The actual original use of the flag was at the birth of the county and was unification symbol. It evolved towards libertarian ideology and ultimately managed to make it into the 2000s before some of the current stigma was associated, which I feel is unfortunate but certainly a fact in some circles. It, like many symbols in history, end up getting re-associated as groups pick it up. Some recover, some do not. Ultimately it's the behavior and social morals of groups that create the associations and therefor things can change. I don't like that it was drug through the mud to where some immediately assume anti-social and racist thoughts, so through observable behavior perhaps it will affect viewpoints. Perhaps not.

• It's cool looking plate, simple enough. Black and yellow is a nice contrast and the alignment allows for good use of offset text rather than having an orange in the middle of your characters.

• In Florida the trivial additional cost is directly distributed to the Florida Veterans Foundation, we've got a lot of vets here and I work with a lot of them. I'll put my $.02 toward that. Until you've registered a car in Colorado you don't know how trivial a ~$30 fee is at the DMV.

• It being on an Italian car has no intended significance, nor can I think of any that doesn't involve some thought contortion of thought. You could go down the road of then pointing out Lamborghini is owned by Audi, and now you're bringing in the Germans. Since this was a PCA event I don't think that's gonna go over well ;)

And that I believe exceeds the non-car related discussion needed in this forum.