Hell, I guess the voters of Mississippi can decide what flag they want for the future without changing the past. It certainly would not be advisable to reconstruct their attitudes about it; I notice the Native Americans got the whole presentation of the Little Big Horn battle field revised to include both sides of the battle. Banning a symbol is not what should occur - choosing one is. It makes as much sense to ban a symbol as it does to yell at a thermometer because your fuel bills weren't paid. And it certainly is nobody else's business what an individual Mississippian decides he wants to have as his or her state symbol. There is no other origin for the decision.

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