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Mississippi

struggle4progress

(120,423 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2015, 03:43 PM Jun 2015

Maybe its time for Mississippi to take another shot at changing its flag

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Maybe its time for Mississippi to take another shot at changing its flag (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2015 OP

Hell yes.... daleanime Jun 2015 #1

We tried maybe ten years ago. Complete fiasco Recursion Jun 2015 #2

Back in 2001, maybe, when Mississippi actually adopted a state flag struggle4progress Jun 2015 #3

daleanime

(17,796 posts)

1. Hell yes....

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:06 PM

Jun 2015

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. We tried maybe ten years ago. Complete fiasco

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 08:06 PM

Jun 2015

There was a horribly worded ballot measure (so horribly worded that I can't confidently say which way I voted), and the options were to keep the current flag or replace it with a flag that looked like something from a former Soviet Republic.

struggle4progress

(120,423 posts)

3. Back in 2001, maybe, when Mississippi actually adopted a state flag

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 08:20 PM

Jun 2015

for the first time since 1906, and Mississippi voters (in a nonbinding referendum) chose not to change it?

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