(CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Monday she believes Mississippi should adopt a new state flag without the Confederate battle emblem.

"Mississippi's the only state in the country that still has the confederate battle emblem on the state flag — do you think Mississippi should adopt a new flag?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked Warren at a town hall in Jackson, Mississippi.

Warren replied with one word -- "Yes" -- and was met with loud applause from the crowd.

There has been a big push to remove Confederate monuments, memorials and symbols after a white supremacist murdered nine African-Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.

The nationwide debate over the removal of the Confederate symbols was renewed in 2017 after white nationalists and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The violent march resulted in the death of a counter-protestor.

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