4 states still honor Confed battle flag in official banners

National Memo

South Carolina Isn’t Only State To Have Struggled With Confederate Flag Displays
By James Queally, Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Days after an attack on a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which police say Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people because of the color of their skin, activists and politicians nationwide turned their anger toward the Confederate flag that flies on the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia.

The flag, emblematic of slavery to most but a symbol of states’ rights and Southern pride to others, has become something of a political football in the wake of the shootings. President Barack Obama and several candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 called for the “stars and bars” to be taken down.

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Mississippi

The Confederate battle flag has hung in the upper left-hand corner of Mississippi’s state flag since 1894. In 2001, the NAACP, Netscape’s chief executive and actor Morgan Freeman led a campaign to change that, pushing an initiative onto the state’s ballot that year that could have removed the Confederate emblem from the state flag.

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A petition to change Mississippi’s state flag has gained more than 3,500 signatures on moveon.org.

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Since link wasn't in article, I looked up site f/ MoveOn petition re: Miss's flag:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/remove-the-confederate-4