Hence this version of the flag, with the brown triangles representing the mountains and the starred red gemstone in the center. I like it. I’m keeping this flag the way it is. Every state in the United States is technically a separate nation. Some believe that Senator Harr and his legislative colleagues should work on more substantive issues and let the flag fly. I believe that this keeps the original ideas, but turns them into a much bolder, more modern flag. Montana has another boring state-seal-on-blue-field motif, but with helpful text to help you remember what state you’re in. Ashland is a lovely little community in southern Oregon (where I lived briefly), best known for its annual Shakespeare festival. The diagonal white stripes (making a V) are for peace. The broad blue stripe is for the mighty Mississippi River itself. The Nebraska state capitol was the site of a truly embarrassing screw up: it flew upside down for ten days in 2017, and no one noticed. Its simple design has historical meaning: the colors are borrowed from the Spanish flag, and the native design alludes to New Mexico’s strong native community.
My variant is very similar to the traditional “Green Mountain Boys Flag” of the short-lived Republic of Vermont. My variant starts with the flag of Hampshire, which has red over yellow, with a crown on the red half and a red rose of Lancaster on the bottom half. This makes South Carolina’s flag look so much like the flag of an Islamic country, that would be perfectly at home on the Arabian peninsula. The twenty-five smaller stars represent Arkansas’s position as the twenty-fifth state. It’s vivid, and it can be recognized at a distance. The sun’s twelve rays are meant to be evocative of a clock, continuing the midnight theme. At least the Massachusetts’ flag isn’t the state seal on a blue field: it’s the state seal on a white field. Nebraska S Flag Lacks Pizazz The Hard Part Is Changing It. The state motto “Sic Semper Tyrannis” (“Thus Always to Tyrants”) reflects this. However it still has writing, and the yellow-on-white scheme makes it very hard to identify from a distance. The red cross is for the state’s English origins.
They represent the state’s original five counties, but they also nicely represent the state’s “Live Free or Die” motto. To this flag I’ve added a fourteenth star to the deliberately irregular constellation, representing Vermont’s position as the fourteenth state. Now, he's on a crowdsourced quest to redesign it. They’re not horribly recognizable, and they seem a convenient way of ignoring a country’s past. Effort To Change State Flag Isn T Dead I Think It S. It has to go. Even so, it has too many words on it to be a decent flag. The center of the arch is, of course, the keystone in state colors. Tacoma’s where I live now, and the current flag is another seal on a blue field. Easily confused with Alabama, but made worse by the seal. Arkansas’s flag, with its red field and white stars on blue lines, is another blatant attempt to sneak in Confederate symbolism. In the 1970s, a legislator here deemed the flag “But what Nebraska’s flag lacks in legibility, it makes up for in durability, as State Senator Burke Harr discovered this year when he became the latest lawmaker to try and fail to replace the banner. Alaska’s flag is already decent—but the eight stars just don’t stand out very well. The Hard Part Is Changing It.The Nebraska state flag hanging from a pole in Hickman, Neb. The crescent and palmetto aren’t too complicated, and they can be recognized from afar. It’s also meant to evoke a compass rose.
The red field is for the people of Virginia (or possibly the blood of tyrants). It looks too much like a sports logo. I’ve done it in blue and orange: blue for the Florida waters (longest coastline among US states!