Miss. lawmakers not erasing Confederate emblem on flag
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press 7:39 p.m. CST February 23, 2016
JACKSON - Mississippi legislators this year won’t attempt to redesign the last state flag that features the Confederate battle emblem because leaders say they can’t find a majority to remove the symbol from the 122-year-old banner.
Tuesday was the deadline for legislative committees to act on general bills, and flag proposals are among hundreds of measures that died ...
Some bills proposed redesigning the flag to remove the rebel cross, while others would have stripped state money from colleges and local governments that refuse to fly the current banner. One bill offered separate-but-equal flags, keeping the current one and having a second with a magnolia tree.
“I’m not saying that all of them are necessarily bad ideas, but we don’t have a consensus on any of them,” said Republican Rep. Jason White, chairman of the House committee in charge of the flag bills ...
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