"I really wanted to put a flag out, but I would never, ever use our current state flag," Stennis said. "I don't identify with it. It doesn't speak to me, or Mississippi." ...

It may be a symbolic change, Taggart said, but designing a new state flag — one that does not include the Confederate battle flag — will show people Mississippi ... "For me the issue is ...

WASHINGTON — The Confederate battle emblem on Mississippi's state flag ... talking about the flag. “If I’m a candidate in the Republican Party, that doesn’t win me anything ...

1:05 p.m. After weeks of mounting pressure, Mississippi lawmakers took the first step Saturday afternoon to change the state flag. The flag ... t see how that makes me a racist," McDaniel said.

On Election Day, nearly 73% of state residents voted to change the state flag, which previously ... not a political moment to me, but a solemn occasion to lead our Mississippi family to come ...

JACKSON, Miss — If you want to know why so many people think Mississippi needs to change ... such racist expressions. Then tell me our current state flag has nothing to do with race.

Mississippi ... of the flag with 20 stars encircling it (representing Mississippi as the 20th state) with a dark blue background and red bars on each side. “What I wanted to do was show every ...

In 2001, Mississippi gave voters the chance to change the flag through a public referendum; 64 percent voted no. “These kinds of issues, sadly, always seem to break down on racial lines ...

Lee and Stonewall Jackson) flew at half-mast outside the State Supreme Court, almost low enough for me to snatch it down—an idea, I admit, that held some appeal. Mississippi’s current flag was ...

Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the author of “The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul ...

an estimable lefty blog in my home state of Mississippi. When I called the court to ask about it, the spokeswoman explained to me that they were as surprised as anyone to see the wrong flag up there.