Elvis and Kermit among public suggestions for new Mississippi state flag

Guitar, beer cans, a lighthouse, Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog have all been proposed to adorn the new flag of a US state.

Mississippi recently retired the state banner with the Confederate battle emblem that is widely condemned as racist.

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