Mississippi to vote on magnolia design to replace flag's Confederate emblem
Source: CBS News
Officials in Mississippi have chosen a new design for the state's flag to replace the former motif featuring the Confederate battle emblem. Residents will vote on the new one, which depicts the state flower, a magnolia, on November 3.
A nine-person commission was tasked with narrowing down 3,000 submissions including one with a giant mosquito from the public. Over 75,000 people voted on their preference, according to Judge Reuben Anderson, president of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees.
Anderson, who was the first African American to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court, and chaired the commission, said in a speech Thursday that he was amazed by the public response to the new design. "There was 75,000 people who felt enough interest in this flag to vote for it, and I think that's amazing," he said.
"I grew up in Mississippi in the '40s and '50s, and all of my life Mississippi has been at the bottom, 50th, in whatever category you can think of," Anderson said. "Whether income, health care, education, we've always been on the bottom. On November 3, I think that'll start to change."
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BumRushDaShow
(128,428 posts)JudyM
(29,187 posts)flying rabbit
(4,625 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,428 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,775 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Its not a bad flag. Dont much like the god part, but realize political necessity. Its on our money, after all.
Not as pretty as Louisianas but better than many.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)White Magnolias
These flowers stand for purity and perfection.
I should probably stop being so cynical.
BumRushDaShow
(128,428 posts)was considered "pure".
Other cultures considered it to represent "death" (even shown by westerners as such with "ghosts" depicted as "white" ).
rpannier
(24,328 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,428 posts)rpannier
(24,328 posts)Yeehah
(4,568 posts)LMAO!
NotANeocon
(423 posts)- by adding superstitious sky fairy bullshit to it.
onetexan
(13,020 posts)Demsrule86
(68,456 posts)roman88
(52 posts)Well done Mississippi