I woke up Wednesday morning and heard the news that Mississippians decided 2 to 1 to keep their old state flag. The one incorporating the Confederate emblem. I wonder how many good people of whatever ilk would admit waking, as I did, thanking their lucky stars they didn't live there. The vote was predetermined. While people preached that Mississippi voters would do the right thing, there was little evidence pointing in that direction.
Whites there believe in their heritage.
Many, at least the 311,000 who voted to keep the flag as a link to their past, should understand their history more clearly. There is good and bad. Their heritage includes valor during the Civil War. Unfortunately, their heritage also includes cowardice. It includes acts of murder and criminal activity.