8X12 FT NYL MISSISSIPPI SEWN FLAG For outdoor display, these State Flags are offered in 100% heavyweight nylon, a 200 denier bunting specially treated to minimize sun and chemical deterioration. They are extremely durable, fast-drying, and boast brilliant, fast colors. All outdoor flags are finished with strong canvas headings and large grommets.

MISSISSIPPI STATE FLAG FACTS

Mississippi was the 20th state to enter the Union on December 10, 1817.  The current state flag was adopted in 1894.

Mississippi has had several flags flown over the state, flags of Spain, Britain, France, the Lone Star, and the United States.

When Mississippi seceded from the United States on January 9, 1861, there was not yet any Confederate States of America, and thus another sovereign nation was born in 1861. the Republic of Mississippi.  After the unofficial waving of the Bonnie Blue flag for a few days, the convention adopted the Magnolia flag, which had a magnolia tree on a white field, and the canton corner had the Bonnie Blue reproduction. A reassembled convention in March made Mississippi a part of the Confederacy, and it thus came under the various flags of the Confederacy for the period of the War Between the States. The Magnolia flag continued as the state flag till 1894, when the legislature adopted the present design.

The Mississippi state flag incorporates two flag designs,  the Battle Flag of the Confederate States and the Stars and Bars.  The square Battle Flag (also known as the Southern Cross) was on a Red field with a White edged diagonal Blue cross.  Stars were arranged along the arms of the cross.  The Stars and Bars reflected the Stars and Stripes with three broad horizontal bars, Red over White over Red, with a circle of stars in the canton in the upper left.  The final design for the current Mississippi flag substituted Blue for Red in the top bar.