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Old flag of Mississippi if the South had won the American Civil War. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Saprophyte 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/34094/senator-calls-for-return-of-old-mississippi-flag-our-people-died-under-that-flag

The state did not adopt the flag—which featured three red, white and blue bars with a Confederate cross in the upper left-hand corner—until 1894, almost three decades after the end of the Civil War and several years after the end of Reconstruction. White supremacist lawmakers adopted the Confederate-themed flag in place of a prior magnolia flag as they worked to lock Black Mississippians out of politics with a slew of Jim Crow laws.