Mississippi votes Magnolia flag to replace Confederate symbol

[Tanuki]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/mississippi-voters-approve-flag-with-magnolia-instead-of-confederate-symbol.html


"Mississippi voters on Tuesday approved a new state flag with a magnolia flower and red, yellow and blue stripes, replacing the one from 1894 that featured the Confederate battle emblem and was decommissioned by lawmakers in June.

The previous flag had weathered decades of protests and the toppling of Confederate relics across the South. But as protests erupted across the country in the weeks after George Floyd died in the custody of the Minneapolis police, the drive to change the flag swiftly gained new vigor as Confederate monuments were vandalized and removed throughout the region.

Although it was still embraced by many white Mississippians as a proud display of Old South heritage, the flag with the Confederate symbol increasingly came to evoke segregation, racial violence and a war that had a central aim of preserving slavery.

A coalition of seemingly unlikely allies, including business-minded conservatives, Baptist ministers and Black Lives Matter activists, led to the old flag’s demise. And about 70 percent of voters approved the new one, which had to include the words “In God We Trust.”

[Hugin]

1. Very dignified.

Nice update.

[spicysista]

2. Well, that's something.

They're still sending a racist magnolia to the Senate, though. Damn, Mississippi.

[dubyadiprecession]

3. Trump may have won that state...

But the redneck, good ol’ boys lost some major fucking ground!
Their ancestors are rolling in their graves!