Mississippi’s largest religious group says state lawmakers have a moral obligation to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.
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The conservative-leaning and majority-white Southern Baptist group has more than 500,000 members in the state, at more than 2,100 churches. Mississippi's population is about 3 million, and 38% of residents are African American. White supremacists in the Mississippi Legislature embedded the symbol in the upper left corner of the state flag in 1894, amid backlash to political power that African Americans gained during Reconstruction.
Members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus on Tuesday renewed their longstanding calls for the Legislature to remove the Confederate symbol, saying another statewide election would be bitter and divisive.
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