Flag Of Mississippi 2019

The mississippi state flag of 1894 amendment initiative 62 was not on the ballot in mississippi as an indirect initiated constitutional amendment on november 5 2019.

Flag of mississippi 2019. Mississippi the only state with a confederate symbol in its flag is offering a new flag design on license plates by michelle lou and brandon griggs cnn updated 4 48 pm et mon april 22 2019. This was the first time that the stennis flag s design received some form of state sanction by being used in an official capacity. The current design displays the confederate battle emblem. Country flags of the world list of all 254 this list includes all countries and dependent territories that are part of iso 3166 1 countries of the united kingdom and kosovo if you are only interested in sovereign states go to the flags of un members.

The state flag of mississippi flies at the governor s mansion in jackson miss. One of the new specialty plates will include the stennis flag along with the phrase history hope hospitality. Young people don t want to live in mississippi because of the flag republican candidate says. On april 17 2019 mississippi governor phil bryant signed a new specialty license plates bill.

Jackson resident and designer laurin stennis has already designed a new flag to represent mississippi in this day and age a state flag is a logo she said. The brass bird cage of an elevator in the mississippi state capitol that laurin stennis. Brandon dill the washington post via getty images hide caption. Lawmakers have voted to remove and replace the flag.

The mississippi state flag flies in front of the capitol dome in 2019. The measure would have also mandated that the official flag be. A commission has whittled down a list of proposed designs for a new mississippi flag from nearly 3 000 to 147. The change for the current design of the state of mississippi flag is up for debate as the legislative session continues.

On april 26 new jersey gov. The measure sought to amend the mississippi constitution to recognize the flag adopted by the state legislature in 1894 as the official state flag of mississippi. Republican tate reeves was elected governor in 2019 after saying that if the flag. Things are slow to change in this old south bastion.