Both Cross and Wyatt were jocks, never served in the military for state or country, that have been educated in the liberal indoctrination classes at Ole’ Miss and Mississippi State. The history textbooks at both schools are full of secondary and tertiary references that show no resemblance to the original event and reflect the extreme bias of the liberal professors with little attention to factual history. The two of them should stick to athletics and not venture into history of which neither of them are informed very well. Mississippi honors the 58K men that gave their lives to the state and the 50K+ men that came home mangled from the Civil War (the largest expenditure for the State in 1866-67 was for prosthetic limbs for the veterans). Nowhere else will honor the men that served the State, not slavery. There is a monument to black Confederates at Canton, 5% of the slaveholders in Mississippi were black, and several Confederate units from Mississippi had black men fighting alongside the whites as equals which PC history ignores. Tishomingo County, Mississippi, voted against succession but sent several regiments to fight for the state, not slavery. That flag, the CBF, was never adopted by the Confederate Government but by the troops in the field. It was never dishonored by the men that fought under it.
I had the honor of sitting with former Governor Kirk Fordyce explaining the origin and reasons for the flag and after the session he stated to me that he would stand behind it as long as he was Governor. He kept his word.