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A poll taken around a heavily dominant southern white area and university were brought together
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flag has been incorporated into the southern white identity unspokenly was brought to the
students and professors and how examining these within the classroom will benefit the south.
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With the statewide held vote being rejected in mississippi over a new flag, the article
goes in depth the the geography of the votes with the traditional model and the electoral model. It
brings insight over the value of the confederate flag within the mississippi flag. There are precise
percentages for a clear view of race versus votes cast to the flag change and why there is a high
debate still today.
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few pages but branches out to retain back to strictly history information. The information gives
perspective to the different opinions over the symbols of what is right and wrong to them.

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own respective opinions. The thoughts of slavery going against what many white mississippians
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perspective for the use of the flag and confederacy in modern culture amongst just a couple of
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The confederate flag received a mass amount of media attention for a fashion statement
and its representation to groups such as youths. Its incorporation into fashion lost its ground to
the traditional meaning. The flag is raised for a different cause but of the same reason to rebel
against authority.