A state flag and a U.S. flag stand near the speaker's podium. The discussion comes two weeks after a divided Jackson City Council voted to display all flags, except the state flag, in the council chamber and days later voted to condemn the flag. Harrison County has also experienced flag controversy, with public division over whether a Confederate battle flag should fly on a beach display at the Biloxi-Gulfport line. He did not say what kind of cancer he has, but in 1996 he underwent surgery for colon cancer. Some visitors at the Capitol Tuesday expressed mixed feelings about the state flag.
Some people think it stands for bigotry.
I think that, too. Justin Isaac, an 11th-grader at Starkville High, said in discussions at school, his classmates are divided. Thornton said he has invited Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes, who sponsored the City Council resolution condemning the state flag, to be at the Capitol today. Stokes admitted removing a flag from the City Council chamber before the council voted on the removal. Stokes could not be reached Tuesday.