{"id":3757,"date":"2020-11-05T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2020-11-05T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T19:57:06","slug":"mississippi-says-goodbye-to-confederate-emblem-and-adopts-a-new-state-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi says goodbye to Confederate emblem and adopts a new state flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Mississippians have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/11\/3\/21546895\/live-results-mississippi-measure-3-state-flag-ballot-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted in favor of the ballot initiative Measure 3<\/a>&nbsp;and will replace their controversial state flag with a new one, according to the New York Times and the Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new flag, named the \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d flag, will put to rest a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/1\/21307556\/mississippi-state-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades-long debate over the flag that the state used for 126 years<\/a>, which features a Confederate emblem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new design was commissioned and approved by the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag, set up by the state legislature after the body voted to do away with the old flag. It prominently features a magnolia flower \u2014 the state flower \u2014 encircled by 20 white stars, a nod to Mississippi\u2019s status as the 20th state to join the US. A larger yellow star sits directly above the flower to represent the Choctaw origins of the state, and all the icons sit on a dark blue and red striped background. The design was selected from just under 3,000 other submissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/4\/21537591\/mississippi-measure-3-flag-confederate-results\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/4\/21537591\/mississippi-measure-3-flag-confederate-results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mississippians have voted in favor of the ballot initiative Measure 3 and will replace their controversial state flag with a new one, according to the New York Times and the Associated Press.<br \/>\nThe new flag, named the \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d flag, will put to rest a decades-long debate over the flag that the state used for 126 years, which features a Confederate emblem.<\/p>\n<p>The new design was commissioned and approved by the Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag, set up by the state legislature after the body voted to do away with the old flag. It prominently features a magnolia flower \u2014 the state flower \u2014 encircled by 20 white stars, a nod to Mississippi\u2019s status as the 20th state to join the US. A larger yellow star sits directly above the flower to represent the Choctaw origins of the state, and all the icons sit on a dark blue and red striped background. The design was selected from just under 3,000 other submissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[879,372,1051,1050,479],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-confederate","tag-election","tag-flag","tag-mississippi","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}