On Sunday, Mississippi lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate symbol from the state flags.

State Assembly and Senate members applauded after both councils passed the bill to retire the flag, with extensive bilateral support.

“How sweet it is to celebrate the day of the Lord,” said the white Republican Parliament Speaker Philip Gunn after the measure passed.

“Many prayed to Him to bring us to this day. He answered. ”

Republican Governor Tate Reeves said he would sign the bill even when he said exactly when he did not say the bill.

The Mississippi legislators put the Confederation emblem on the flag in 1894. The state used its flag in the country, a red area crossed with a blue X marked with 13 white stars.

The flag has been debated among its inhabitants for decades, and the state faced increased pressure last month to lift it due to global racial injustice demonstrated by the killing of George Floyd by the police.

A commission to design the new flag of Mississippi will be commissioned without the Confederate battle emblem.

The new design would be put on the November 3 ballot paper and would be the official state flag when the majority of voters approved the design.

If the majority votes against the new flag, the commission returns to the drawing board to design a new emblem based on the same criteria.

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