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Mississippi governor signing law for flag without rebel sign

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| January 11, 2021 11:12 AM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is set to sign a bill Monday that gives the state a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase, “In God We Trust," just over six months after legislators retired the last state flag in the U.S. that included the Confederate battle emblem.

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