Calls Should Come for Mississippi and Georgia's Flags to be Changed

   Now, how many state flags will come down? All seven that either blatantly or mildly have relations to the flags of the Confederate States of America? Or should just four be changed?
   If South Carolina can no longer fly even fly a Confederate flag at its state capital, well, then, what of the states the incorporate features of flags of the Confederacy right into their design? Mississippi's is the most blatant, having the Confederate flag right on it. And, sure enough, today, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said the Confederate emblem must be taken off the flag.
   Then there is the Georgia flag. It pretty much is the same as the first Confederate flag. (The Confederate States weren't around many years, yet they had three official flags, meaning there were two others besides the one most similar to what we know today.) If Mississippi's flag must go, so must Georgia's.
   Florida and Alabama have crosses in their flags, same as the famous Confederate flag. Is that cutting it too close? I believe so, for there are not such crosses in the flags of other states, so it seems Florida and Alabama were casting a nod to their Confederate heritage. (The crosses in the two flags both came after the Civil War.)
   Some have also seen semblances of the first Confederate flag in the North Carolina flag and semblances of the third Confederate flag in the Tennessee flag.
   Finally, there is Arkansas. Its flag has four stars. Three represent France, Spain and the United States (the three countries Arkansas belonged to before gaining statehood), and a fourth represents  the Confederate States, to which Arkansas also once belonged.
   (Note: Source material for this blog came mostly from an online Washington Post article on the seven flags, but also from Wikipedia articles showing the flags of all 50 states and the three Confederate flags.)
 (Note: This article slightly edited June 27th, as I learned even the second official flag was not identical with what we know today as the Confederate flag. See "Not the Confederate Flag" on YouTube.)