If you live in New York, Louisiana, New Hampshire or Minnesota, you're going to need a passport to travel in America

Alternet - Thanks to provisions in the little-known Real ID Act – passed in 2005 – four states will soon be unable to use a regular driver's licenses to fly even within the continental United States. The Department of Homeland Security has named New York, Louisiana, Minnesota, American Samoa, and New Hampshire as locations where the residents will be required to use alternative to fly on commercial airplanes. Although there is no reason given for why these states and regions were singled out, it could possibly be because these driver's licenses – the traditional form of identification used at airports – aren't compatible with new enactments of federal "Real ID" laws.