No coercion -- no one needs to buy these.
Neutrality -- dozens of other institutional advertising plates for all sorts of organizations.
Endorsement -- clearly license plates are state-created/required things and are inevitably associated with the state. But I suspect that people are familiar enough with all sorts of vanity plates and institutional plates as to make any sort of seeming endorsement insignificant.
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Towne v. Eisner, 245 U.S. 418, 425 (1918)
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