Posted on 06/25/2020 9:43:31 AM PDT by Yosemitest
Edited on 06/25/2020 9:52:12 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ACKSON, Miss.
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The Lost Causers need to get over the fact that they lost.
We strongly considered moving South when we retired to get away from the crazy politics here.
However, it looks like the politicians have gone wacky in the South—nowhere to run these days....
I dont understand the hostility to changing the flag. Mississippi is the Magnolia State and they have a Magnolia State flag pre-Civil War that I actually really like.
I know, Im not from the south and Im not a Mississippian. I dont get the attachment to the Confederate flag and never have.
I do understand being told, pressured and cajoled into doing something you might have as well done anyways on your own. I do understand that. I understand the state is feeling under siege as well as many of us for various reasons.
However, the pre-CW flag is pretty damn cool IMHO.
Just go back to the original magnolia flag. The flag youre twisted up about from the 1890s was not even the official flag from about 1906 until sometime after 2000 because MS didnt really have a flag under law during that time. Not a single public MS university flies this flag and many local governments dont either. Youve even had another design appear on license plates.
Good. Republican Governor Tatye Reeves should get rid of that vestige to Mississippi’s racist Democrat past. For the first time since Reconstruction, Republicans gained control of the legislature and all executive offices in 2020. Since voters have finally eliminated the Democrat party from all bases of power this year, it is only appropriate for Republicans to get rid of the Democrat Party emblem on the flag.
What was the Mississippi state flag prior to this one?
Anyone care to guess where this moronic crap leads to?...well, changing all the States names is one of my outside bets, Texas, Louisianna, Mississippi, yeah, let’s rename them all!
What’s on your state flag? A pussy hat?
Therein lies the problem. Far too many suggest to run away from the diseases foisted on Americans by the liberals. So, much like CHAZ, we are incrementally yielding the country away.
Seems to me that to change the state flag having a plebiscite would be the preferred way. Let the people decide. November is coming. Place the question on the ballot.
Florida’s flag is next.
When I learned the history of this MS flag I pretty much came to that conclusion. I have known rural southern blacks who identify with the rebel battle flag because for them being a Southerner is key to their self-identity. I personally dont get the regionalism.
Native Californians werent wrapping themselves in whatever version there was of the CA flag. When I left we were more likely to see the Mexican flag or a rainbow flag than anything state related
New York is named for a duke of york who was instrumental in British slave trade.
Yeah but which flag is actively banned? Seems some people are entitled to their culture but others are denied.
Guess it's back to "New Amsterdam", although of course the Dutch had a history with slavery as well.
They already voted about 2-1 to keep the flag in 2001. There’s a lot of other crap to fix in Mississippi before worrying about a flag that a majority of the people in the state already wanted to keep anyway. These people need to be forcefully told “hell no, go away.”
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Its a rainbow flag - coz yknow - its heroic and brave and stuff.
They did that 19 years ago. 65% voted to keep it.
That’s what I figured.
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