Before it was raised in 1894, a flag bearing a magnolia tree flew over the state. Some in Mississippi have suggested a return to the original flag. "The current state flag did not fly over ...

Another, an original magnolia flag, was adopted in 1861 as Mississippi's first official flag. It had suffered a lot of wear and tear before it was rescued by conservators. One flag went where few ...

Mississippi has made it official ... The famed phrase “Stars and Bars,” however, usually refers to the original Confederate flag, designed in 1861, which has seven stars arranged in a circular ...

It is now known as the Hospitality Flag. The Magnolia Flag has deeper roots. Modeled after Mississippi’s original state flag, the Magnolia Flag pictures a magnolia tree, the state tree ...

Stennis recently told The Gallo Show on SuperTalk Mississippi that her original moniker for the flag, the Declare Flag, “was not catching on.” Her flag design is one of several alternatives ...

Mississippi’s current flag was introduced ... Its canton, the white star on a blue field, is derived from the so-called Original Lone Star flag, a banner first flown in 1810 by the short-lived ...

It's a perennial debate in Mississippi: Redesign the state flag to remove its Confederate ... If they choose to change it, then the original language and the Legislature's language both ...

WASHINGTON — The Confederate battle emblem on Mississippi's state flag continues to be an emotional wedge issue there ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday, but few of the six remaining ...

The public has already submitted about 600 proposals for a new Mississippi flag without the Confederate ... 2, which is 12 days earlier than their original deadline. Election officials have ...

The Mississippi flag fight continues through the state as a ... "Senator McDaniel needs 5,000 signatures to get the original flag on the ballot," Scanlan said. These people said they want the old ...

Opponents of the “New Magnolia” flag hope to launch a ballot ... the blossom represents the land’s original Native tribes. The design "represents Mississippi’s sense of hope and rebirth ...