The vote came at a time when the United States was experiencing a wave of anti-racist protests and which rekindled controversy over the maintenance of symbols associated with slavery.
Parliamentarians from Mississippi, in the southern United States, decided on Sunday that a new flag will be created that no longer meets the Confederacy standard.
The current flag includes the pattern that represented the southern states, as opposed to the abolition of slavery, during the Civil War (1861-1865).
The removal of the symbol was approved on Sunday by the Mississippi House of Representatives by a 91 to 23 majority.
Mississippi is the only US state to have the southern symbol on its flag, after neighboring Georgia abandoned it in 2003.
Mississippi citizens will be asked to vote for the new flag in November. If they reject it, the state will not have a flag until a new design is approved.
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