A neo-Nazi group will be allowed to participate in Delaware's Adopt A Highway program, but can't use the word "Nazi" in the signs designating their segment of the roadway, The (Wilmington) News Journal reports.

Instead of "National Socialist Freedom Movement Nazi Party," the two signs will read "Freedom Party." Delaware DOT also rejected Edward McBride III's application for the name "NSFM88 Nazi Party."

"His request to have the words 'Nazi Party' displayed on a state sign was denied because DelDOT chose not to associate the state with the term and its generally understood philosophy of advocating the denial of civil rights," DelDOT spokesman Geoff Sundstrom said in an e-mail, News Journal reporter Chad Livengood writes.

McBride, 24, and his wife, Katelyn McManus, 23, are the group's only members in Sussex County, but believe they have 45 members statewide. After McBride's bids were turned down, McManus applied for the "Freedom Party" designation using their same address, the newspaper says.

The neo-Nazi group believes white Christians should be the only race and religion allowed in the U.S., the News Journal reports.

McBride says the group also advocates closing off the nation's borders from immigrants, ending U.S. participation in free trade with other countries and barring "non-whites" from owning or controlling newspapers, the News Journal says.

The newspaper says about 750 groups participate in the "Adopt A Highway" program that requires organizations to clean their designated portion at least three times a year.