Mississippi lawmakers voted to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers
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.
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