JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Mississippi has a 38% Black population — and the last state flag that incorporates the emblem that’s widely seen as racist. Debate over changing the flag has arisen before, and in recent years an increasing number of cities and all the state’s public universities have taken it down on their own. But the issue has never garnered enough support in the conservative Republican-dominated Legislature or with recent governors.
I got wet from such posts
Good job Mississippi GOP!
It doesn’t matter Mississippi, that BlackLivesMatter leader said he was going to burn the country down anyways... LOL.
IF mississippi IS smart, their’s will be white with a blue , or white with stars in the formation.
Alabama was smart enough to THINK ahead of all the snowflakes with agendas. kissourass
Will there be a redesign or is it going to be the flag of Yugoslavia now?
Why anybody celebrated losers and traitors ill never understand Oh wait.....one is currently president
American has a long way to go. But it's not like we aren't trying. Because we are.
here is the replacement symbol
Funny, it was the GOP that did this.
Way to go Mississippi
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Mississippi God Damn!!! MSFreePress
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