South Carolina lawmaker: Mississippi hurts own economy with Confederate symbol on state flag
Posted on 10/11/2015 11:19:00 PM
by Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. - Civil-rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams, Mississippi-born rapper David Banner and a prominent South Carolina lawmaker are calling on Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem .. from its state flag.
About 400 people took part in a change-the-flag rally Sunday outside the Mississippi Capitol ... Three men holding large flags with various Confederate emblems watched the rally from a distance across the Capitol lawn ...
South Carolina state Rep. Jenny Horne said Sunday that Mississippi is hurting its own economy by keeping the battle emblem on the state flag.
"It is a new South. The economic development opportunities that Mississippi is missing out on -- you don't even know it, but it's costing all citizens jobs," said Horne ...
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