Mississippi voters on Tuesday permitted a brand new state flag with a magnolia flower and pink, yellow and blue stripes, changing the one from 1894
Mississippi voters on Tuesday permitted a brand new state flag with a magnolia flower and pink, yellow and blue stripes, changing the one from 1894 that featured the Accomplice battle emblem and was decommissioned by lawmakers in June.
The earlier flag had weathered many years of protests and the toppling of Accomplice relics throughout the South. However as protests erupted throughout the nation within the weeks after George Floyd died within the custody of the Minneapolis police, the drive to vary the flag swiftly gained new vigor as Accomplice monuments have been vandalized and eliminated all through the area.
Though it was nonetheless embraced by many white Mississippians as a proud show of Outdated South heritage, the flag with the Accomplice image more and more got here to evoke segregation, racial violence and a warfare that had a central purpose of preserving slavery.
A coalition of seemingly unlikely allies, together with business-minded conservatives, Baptist ministers and Black Lives Matter activists, led to the previous flag’s demise. And about 70 p.c of voters permitted the brand new one, which needed to embrace the phrases “In God We Belief.”