Laurin Stennis Mississippi State Flag - A State Flag in the Making

The Mississippi flag will change in the near future, by 2021.  Today the elected leaders of Mississippi are voting on whether or not to allow the flag to change.  In the aftermath of George Floyd riots, this is a part of the wake that is shaking the culture of America and the world, right now.

The most popular flag in the running for the New Mississippi, 21st Century flag is the Laurin Stennis design.  Her design is a radical departure from the current Mississippi State flag.  However Stennis's proposal maintains certain elements of Southern Flags and the Confederacy.

First, the colors of the Mississippi's flag are maintained: red, white, and blue.  The central blue star in the center is an inverted Bonnie Blue star.  Finally the red stripes on the left and right copy the final version of the Confederate flag of 1865 and the States Right's flag of 1861 when Mississippi left the Union.  Likewise the central white field of the Stennis design has a tangential echo of the white field of the second and third versions of the Confederate flag.

New elements not of Confederate design is the circle of stars, which is more a kin to the Betsy Ross flag—which is now considered a racist flag of oppression by many.

Consequently the Stennis flag is a flag created to heal and bind the wounds between brothers.  It just so happens to carry an echo of the Confederacy, the American Revolution, and honor the current national flag of Canada—our northern brothers and sisters who lost to the Original Rebs of 1776.