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Look away, Dixie: Mississippi to lose rebel emblem from flag

by Associated Press
| June 29, 2020 12:03 AM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.

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