The Mississippi state House of Representatives on Sunday passed a bill to change the state's flag, setting up a vote in the state Senate that could result in the removal of the flag's Confederate battle emblem.

The 91-23 vote comes as Mississippi lawmakers in recent weeks have been weighing a change to their flag amid the continued racial justice protests across the country.

Mississippi is the last state in the country whose flag features the Confederate emblem.

The flag, first adopted in 1894, has red, white and blue stripes with the Confederate battle emblem in the corner.

The bill would establish a commission to develop a new flag design without the Confederate emblem that includes the phrase "In God, We Trust." Mississippi state voters would then vote on the new design in November.

Let's just hope that they can get it done....

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Mississippians had previously been resistant to changing the flag, citing the state's history. But activists argued the flag has been co-opted, and now is used as a symbol of white supremacy, the Jim Crow South and racism and violence that black Americans still face.

So hopefully once they adopt a new flag, the old racist views,  will start to disappear along with the ugly flag!

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