Mississippi – pulling away from the past

 
Mississippi has dropped the Confederate battle flag symbol from the state flag, the last remaining state to do so.  A statewide referendum in 2001 voted overwhelmingly to preserve it despite 4 in 10 residents being black but opinion shifted after a white supremacist’s massacre of nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C. His manifesto was riddled with images of the Confederate battle flag. The recent killing of George Floyd pushed the issue to the top of the agen