Mississippi New Flag
The new mississippi flag has the state flower on a dark blue background with red bars on either end.
Mississippi new flag. With 67 percent of precincts in the state reporting the. In 1906 mississippi adopted a revised legal code that repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the legislature or brought forward in the new code. Mississippi on tuesday voted to replace its state flag which had been the last one in the us.
Ap a new mississippi flag without confederate images was flying in parts of the state on wednesday one day after a majority voters approved the design that has a magnolia. Voters cast their ballots in favor of measure 3 a referendum adopting a new state flag featuring a. Cnn mississippi is getting closer to picking a state flag that residents can vote on in november.
The new state flag will feature the. Mississippi has formally rebuked the confederate battle cross that once adorned its state flag. A new mississippi state flag design was chosen on wednesday two months after state legislators voted to remove the confederate battle emblem.
Lawmakers took action this summer to retire the former mississippi state flag which contained the confederate battle emblem. The legislature inadvertently omitted mention of the 1894 flag leaving the state with no official state flag from 1906 to 2001. This was not discovered in mississippi statute until the 21st century.
To include an image of the confederate themed battle flag. An appointed state commission voted wednesday 8 to 1. Mississippi voted tuesday to replace its state flag which features the confederate stars and bars with a new flower centric design.
Voters in mississippi voted to approve a new state flag design. The new flag features a magnolia blossom surrounded by 20 stars signifying mississippis status at the 20th state in the union and a gold five point star to reflect mississippis indigenous.