Mississippi - United States

Mississippi is an American state named after the river with an length of 3,730 km (2,320 mi) and it's also the western border of the state. In the Native American language of the Ojibwa it means "great river". The state has an slavery past and long time after it's abolishment big segregation and discrimination issues which enden in the 60s when Afro-Americans regained fully voting rights. Mississippi is still one of the conservative states and also the poorest, lowest education level and life expectancy, wages are low. All this problems are reasons for the Afro-Americans looking for an better prosperous life elsewhere in the United Stated. Maybe of those problems is Mississippi is the most religious state of the United States, when people needs hope they tried to find it in religion. Mississippi is the cradle of American music styles like the blues, gospel and rock 'n roll and the earlier mentioned leaving people of the state, the music spread around the country and eventually the world. This mostly flat and rural state has an population of around 2.9 million. So let's take an look at the flag.

This conservative state use an controversial symbol in it's flag, the Confederate Battle Flag in the upper left part. Also there are three horizontal stripes in the colors blue, white and red. Those colors have to do with the Confederate States of America who fight for secession in the Civil War against the United States of America. The flag of the C.S.A. used those colors, so it's an kind of tribute. The Confederate Battle Flag is also an tribute for the fallen from the Civil War. It is not surprising that African-Americans are against this flag and others with an sensible mind. At least there are efforts made to try change this flag over the years but not successful yet. It's something like when put an swastika on the Bavarian flag to remember the fallen in the Second World War. Flags can't hurt but only people who made them can.