Mississippi Flag, a Rebel Holdout, Is in a New Fight
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
NOV. 7, 2015
... With the closing of the polls on Tuesday night, what could turn out to be the last battle over the Confederate flag in Mississippi has begun in earnest ...
... This week, Mr. Waters, a self-described conservative who has been retained by a group of people he declined to name, will arrive in Mississippi to pick up a difficult task: forming an unlikely and perhaps unmanageable alliance ... to remove forever the Confederate battle flag from the state flag ...
In the 2001 referendum ... 90 percent of whites voted to keep the flag as it is. Among blacks, 95 percent voted for a new design, which replaced the cross with a circle of white stars.
“Don’t try to force me as a black man who knows his history to honor something that goes against my heritage,” said Robert Brown, a 42-year-old barber in Louisville ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/us/mississippi-flag-a-rebel-holdout-is-in-a-new-fight.html?_r=0
