At CNN Politics on June 29, 2020 there is an article by Paul LeBlanc titled Mississippi state legislature passes bill to remove Confederate symbol from state flag in historic vote. They voted on June 28 to get rid of the flag shown above and replace it with one having the words IN GOD WE TRUST, with the rest of its design to be established by a commission. The Wikipedia article says Mississippi has a curious history regarding state flags. Before the Civil war there was none. At the end of March 1861 (as a Confederate state) they adopted one with a magnolia. In 1894 they came up with a second flag similar to the one shown above. But in a 1906 revision of their legal code they accidentally got rid of it, and did not bring it back until 2001 – when a proposal for another design was defeated via a referendum.
On May 14, 2016 I blogged about how Looking at flag design will change how you make PowerPoint slides. In that post I linked to an 8-page Guide from 2013 by Ted Kaye titled GOOD FLAG, BAD FLAG How to Design a Great Flag. His five basic principles are shown above. Note that #4 is having no lettering.
One simple design using the Hospitality stars pattern and including the legislatively mandated motto is shown above. On September 23, 2017 I also blogged about A new, simpler, better flag for the city of Pocatello, Idaho.
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