MS has new state flag. But pro-Trump Capitol riot shows the past isn't so far away.
Isabelle Taft, The Sun Herald
Jan. 9—On Wednesday morning, Mississippi's Senate voted to ratify the state's new flag.
Just hours later, an unidentified man carried the Confederate battle flag into the United States Capitol.
To some Coast legislators and activists who worked to change Mississippi's flag, it was a moment of horror, but also vindication. Though many supporters of the 1894 state flag claim the emblem represents a kind of apolitical "Southern heritage," on Wednesday it was carried by a member of a violent mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol in support of a president who counts avowed white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members among his supporters.