New Flag Design

[Rex54]

I think this requirement is absolutely ridiculous. It's stupid and tone deaf. It's an anachronism from 1950s anti-communist hysteria America. Really don't need Mississippi being stuck in the 1950s when we're trying to move forward.

We could use another HUAC right now.

[bostondawg]

Looks like we got a yankee bostondawg up in here.

Born and raised in the yankee mecca known as Southeast Louisiana.

[NCDawg]

Born and raised in the yankee mecca known as Southeast Louisiana.

If it is anywhere around New Orleans, it is pretty much is a yankee mecca.

[BeardoMSU]

If it is anywhere around New Orleans, it is pretty much is a yankee mecca.

"Fun" does have a historically yankee vibe...

[Gypsy_RoadDawg]

Just my thoughts on this is the new flag should represent something about the state that we are nationally know for. It has been long known and said that Mississippi is the birthplace of American music. I believe something along that line should be in order and would shed a positive light on our state.

[IMissJack]

Just my thoughts on this is the new flag should represent something about the state that we are nationally know for.

Catfish?** I really am ok with the magnolia blossom on the flag.

[Cowbell]

I grew up in Brandon and went to State, but moved to Atlanta after college. I've watched this whole flag thing before, 20 years ago.

Georgia had a big battle emblem -- bigger than MS -- and eventually it got removed by democrat governor Roy Barnes who replaced it with what looked like a bad PowerPoint slide that threw up. Everyone hated it. Sonny Perdue, the first Republican governor of Georgia since Reconstruction, ran on changing it and promised a referendum. When the referendum came, the old flag wasn't part of the selections. The referendum was on the Barnes PowerPoint disaster and the Perdue stars-and-bars flag that he got passed. (It is actually based on the official Confederate national flag, which is the biggest irony of all.)

There was a period of a few years where the old flag was flown rather widely among the "resistance." They still hate Perdue for depriving them of that battle emblem. You can find specialty license plates and you'll still see that flag flown at the odd house in the country that also has a flagpole devoted to the battle flag itself -- the whole giant Ole-Miss-like full rectangle. But outside of the random racist and/or old south devotee who has embraced that identity, though, the only place you really see it now is over a Confederate cemetery or engraved on a monument at some battleground historical marker.

I expect there will be a resistance element in MS that more deeply embraces the 1894 flag as a result, but that will fade over time. It's not even as prevalent at OM as it used to be.

Perdue continues to be a waste of space, only in Washington now. Definition of a career politician.

[Mobile Bay]

There are some pockets in Georgia that are mind boggling racist/stuck in the 1800s more than anything I've seen in Mississippi.

Yeah, like Athens. I went to our game there a couple of years back and accidentally ended up in a bar named General Beauregard's. Totally covered in confederate flags, portraits of generals and the like. I may not have been able to buy a robe and hood there, but they could have told me where to go to get one.

[Skydawg1]

Born and raised in the yankee mecca known as Southeast Louisiana.

How South how East? And do you consider Hi-Ho real BBQ?**

[StoneDawg]

Dark Blue background with a white Magnolia in the middle.

[Dawg-gone-dawgs]

Bring back Bonnie Blue!

[bostondawg]

While we're talking about the vexillology subreddit, they also have this gem. Probably shows a lot about how the country thinks of us.

Hint: please don't force the "in god we trust" onto the flag.

[bostondawg]

Oh and this one.

(yes, that's a very small "in god we trust" in red at the bottom. The country is laughing at us.)

[StoneDawg]

Delete

[QuadrupleOption]

Not that it matters that much, but I think we need one that is identifiable as Mississippi?s. Im not a fan of the seal being on the flag because you can?t tell whose it is at first glance. Tennessee, Texas, California, Colorado, and South Carolina have distinctive flags that I can identify at first glance. What you guys think?

Blue flag, white magnolia, "In God We Trust" on it (because it has to be, apparently). I don't really care though. Just a flag that isn't going to have our state in the headlines for being racist and enshrining Confederate symbology on items that represent our state government. It could be purple with orange polka dots (and "In God We Trust" of course) for all I care.