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Mississippi faces reckoning on Confederate emblem in flag

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JACKSON, Miss. – The young activists who launched a protest movement after George Floyd’s death are bringing fresh energy to a long-simmering debate about the Confederate battle emblem that white supremacists embedded within the Mississippi state flag more than 125 years ago.Anti-racism protests have toppled Confederate statues and monuments across the United States in recent days, and even NASCAR banned the display of the rebel flag.

But Mississippi has been a holdout for years in displaying the emblem in the upper-left corner of its banner.Republican Gov.

Tate Reeves rejects the idea of a legislative vote on erasing the symbol. If the flag is to be redesigned, "it should be the people who make that decision, not some backroom deal by a.

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