Mississippi to vote on magnolia design to replace flag's Confederate emblem [View all]
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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