What was the Mississippi flag before 1894

At this time, we are exploring different approaches to resolve.The fimbriation should be the same width as the white bordering the canton (about 1/5 or 1/6 of the width of the blue bars that make up the saltire).The mississippi state flag was adopted by the state legislature in 1894.This flag has a replica of the confederate battle flag in the canton corner, although the language of the act creating the flag does not say so.Between 1861 and 1865, the magnolia flag had a magnolia tree at the center and was hoisted until 1894 when the current design was adopted and used in times of the civil war.

The magnolia flag was mississippi's first official state flag when it joined the confederacy in 1861.The state chose a flag that incorporated the symbol lee wanted mothballed, pointedly calling it a.Mississippi is the last state in the country whose flag features the confederate emblem.They wanted their children and grandchildren to be proud of them, the future generations of this state to be proud of what they did, he said.It has mounted a petition drive to place on the ballot — as early as 2022 — an initiative that would allow voters to restore the 1894 flag, or select other options including the in god we trust flag.

In 2001, the mississippi economic council, or mec, led the unsuccessful mississippi flag referendum to change the state flag.When the state convention at the capitol in jackson declared its secession from the united states (the union) on january 9, 1861, near the start of the american civil war, spectators in the balcony handed a bonnie blue flag down to the state convention delegates on the convention floor, and one was raised over the state capitol.The confederate battle emblem has a red field topped by a blue x with 13 white stars.The flag, which has flown since 1894, is poised to come down, becoming yet another emblem of the confederacy to be removed across the south.