US state of Mississippi got a new flag

On November 3, voters in Mississippi approved a new flag, “The New Magnolia”, featuring a magnolia flower. The flag will replace the old one that has been in use for 126 years, and which carried the Confederate battle emblem on it.

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Key-Points

Mississippi is nicknamed the “Magnolia State”, a reference to the magnolia trees that grow there.

Mississippi was the last state in the US to have a flag that featured the Confederate battle emblem.

The Confederate States of America or the Confederacy refers to the government of 11 Southern slaveholding states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61 in the American Civil War after they felt threatened by the election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln as the US President in 1860.

Mississippi is a state in the Deep South region of the United States.

Mississippi is bordered to the north by Tennessee, to the east by Alabama, to the south by the Gulf of Mexico, to the southwest by Louisiana, and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mississippi’s western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.

Jackson is both the state’s capital and largest city.