Many times, doing the right thing is unpopular. Sadly if our country’s political decisions were all put to a vote, we’d sometimes have blood in the streets over the issues of our day.

A small, but important, decision occurred this week at the Adams County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Four of the five board members voted to no longer fly the Mississippi State flag at county buildings.

The reason is that the flag contains Confederate symbolism. Mississippi is the only state still clinging to the not-so-glowing part of our past.

We applaud supervisors on their decision, but the move sends a clear message to the world — Adams County is different than the rest of Mississippi.

Perhaps nowhere else in Mississippi is as unique as Adams County. The area’s delegates voted not to secede from the Union in 1861.

Although a recent movement made in jest for the area to secede and join the state of Louisiana has certainly perked up some eyebrows, the move is mostly made to garner attention.

Adams County’s Mississippi roots are deep — among the deepest imaginable dating 300 years this year.

So scoffers who simply say our area is somehow a traitor to the history of the Civil War are underestimating Natchez. The war was an important milestone in Natchez’s history, but our history and our future transcend a single event.

Our ability to welcome people of all walks of life and from all parts of the globe is unmatched by any other Mississippi town, and that’s due in part to our progressive and understanding people and the four supervisors who voted this week are proof.