Mississippi removes Confederate flag from state flag

With all the chaos surrounding the 2020 election, it was easy to miss one positive thing: Mississippi residents removed the Confederate flag from their state flag.

The new flag of Mississippi.

In June 2020, the Mississippi state legislature voted to remove the old state flag immediately and begin a contest to design a new flag. In the November 2020 elections, Mississippi state ballots included a question on whether or not to accept the flag above as the new state flag. It passed overwhelmingly with 73% of the vote.

Green counties voted in favor of the new flag.

"Gunn, who for years was the most prominent Republican leader to publicly advocate for changing the state flag, told stories on Monday of state lawmakers who had been against change this summer – up until just days before the Legislature voted – but who had changes of heart.

“It was their families,” Gunn said of what changed their minds. “It was knowing that history was going to record what they did, and they did not want their spouses and children and grandchildren to be disappointed. They wanted future generations of this state to be proud of what they did.”

“Now we turn the page on this new chapter in our state’s history,” Gunn continued. “It is blank. It has yet to be written. What will it say? What will the history of this new flag be? What will it stand for? That is going to be determined by you, the citizens of the state of Mississippi.

“… It can represent a place of hospitality, a place of goodwill toward all men, a place of sacrificial service to our fellow man, or it can not. It can represent a place where we love our neighbors as ourselves, or it can not … It can represent a place where in God we trust, or it can not. We will determine what is written … Yes, in God we trust, and may he bless the great state of Mississippi.”

Hosemann, who publicly advocated for a change in the flag after House leaders initiated the process this summer, also spoke at the ceremony on Monday.

“Over 900,000 Mississippians voted for this flag to represent the state of Mississippi,” Hosemann said. “It will provide a shade of history and community for our citizens. It will provide nourishment to the roots of our society. It will inspire children for hopefully generations to come, and it will give us a sense of place. We will learn together under this flag. We will work together under this flag, and we will worship together under this emblem.”"

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/01/11/its-a-great-day-mississippi-raises-new-state-flag-after-126-years/

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The last referendum on a new state flag, in 2001, failed. However, the 2001 flag redesign was merely the old state flag with the Confederate flag removed. The 2020 flag started completely from scratch, representing a truly fresh start for the state.

The treasonous state flag of Mississippi (1894-2020).

The proposed new flag from 2001.

In 2015, after renewed controversy over the Confederate flag in the wake of White Supremacist Dylann Roof's mass murder in a South Carolina church, there were attempts to change Mississippi's flag, but they did not lead anywhere.

Now, 155 years after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi has finally symbolically rejoined America.

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This leaves Georgia as the only state which continues to fly the flag of an enemy nation. Now that Georgia is increasingly turning blue, it is likely their traitorous flag will soon be replaced as well.

Georgia state flag.

National flag of the Confederacy (1861-1863).

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For more information on the Confederate flag's unbroken history of racism and the South's struggle between American culture and the White Supremacist Dixie culture, see the following article:

https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-south-will-rise-again-but-as-part.html