Photos: New flag flies over Mississippi Capitol
Members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Honor Guard prepare to raise the new Mississippi State flag at the Capitol in Jackson, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Earlier in the afternoon, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law that created the new state flag with magnolia at the center, six months after the state retired the last state flag in the U.S. that included the Confederate battle emblem. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Honor Guard stand at attention as they prepare to raise the new Mississippi State flag at the Capitol in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
The new Mississippi state flag flies under the eagle at the top of the Capitol rotunda following a ceremonial unfurling in Jackson, Miss.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves leads flag commission members as they carry the new Mississippi state flag to the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., for the ceremonial raising of the banner, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
A lone protester waves the retired state flag as he walks along the sidewalk at the Capitol following the ceremonial raising of the new Mississippi State flag at the Capitol in Jackson, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Lee Anglada of Biloxi, Miss., stands on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol and waves the retired state flag, which incorporated a Confederate battle emblem and a pro-Trump banner during a small protest of the constitutional process to affirm the president-elect's victory in the November election at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Mississippi hoisted a new state flag without the Confederate battle emblem, six months after the last U.S. state banner with the symbol was retired.