Flag of Mississippi
The pending flag of Mississippi is a flag with a white magnolia blossom and the words ‘In God We Trust’ on a red field with a gold-bordered blue pale. It replaces the previous flag that displayed the Confederate battle insignia in the upper left hand corner, which was retired on June 30, 2020. Governor Tate Reeves stated that if the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill that weekend addressing the flag issue, he would sign it into law. On June 27, 2020, the Legislature passed the bill to repeal the sections of the Mississippi state code which made provisions for a state flag. It was approved by a majority of voters and will become the official flag of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
About Flag of Mississippi in brief
The pending flag of Mississippi is a flag with a white magnolia blossom and the words \”In God We Trust\” on a red field with a gold-bordered blue pale. It replaces the previous flag that displayed the Confederate battle insignia in the upper left hand corner, which was retired on June 30, 2020. Once officially adopted, Mississippi will have had three official state flags in its history. The first flag, known as the \”Magnolia Flag\”, was adopted in 1861 and was the official state flag from March 30, 1861, until August 22, 1865. The second flag, designed by Edward N. Scudder and adopted in 1894, consisted of a triband of three equal horizontal stripes of blue, white, and red. The third flag was chosen by the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag and was submitted for public vote as a ballot measure on November 3, 2020 and approved by state referendum. It is one of three U.S. state flags to feature the words ‘In God we Trust’ with the other two being those of Florida and Georgia. The flag was retired in 2020 in response to the George Floyd protests. Governor Tate Reeves stated that if the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill that weekend addressing the flag issue, he would sign it into law. On June 27, 2020, the Legislature passed the bill to repeal the sections of the Mississippi state code which made provisions for a state flag. The bill was signed into law on June 28, 2020 with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History developing a plan for the removal of the former flag from public buildings within 15 days of the bill’s effective date.
The commission received thousands of submissions, and narrowed them down to a single choice which was submitted to the public vote on Nov 3,2020. It was approved by a majority of voters and will become the official flag of the U. S. state of Mississippi once enacted into law by the state legislature. The state was left without an official flag until the second one was adopted in 18 94. This was the only state flag to incorporate the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia into its design. The thirteen stars on the state flag officially represented ‘the number of the original states of the Union’, although they are sometimes thought to be for the states that seceded from the Union plus Missouri and Kentucky, which also had both Confederate and Union governing bodies. The Magnolia Flag was not widely used during the war, with various flags being used as various flags with various Confederate flags with the Confederate flag in the canton. On January 26, 1861 the state delegates neglected to adopt the flag for the defense of the state but did so when they reassembled in March 1861. Later that night, residents of Jackson paraded through the streets under the banner. Harry McCarthy, an Irish singer and playwright who observed the street parade, was inspired to write the patriotic song ‘The Bonnie Blue Flag’.
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