Weird that Oregon has two different sides – apparently that’s rare.
Georgia sure changes its mind a lot. I find the 2001-2003 version especially goofy - -apparently it’s an attempt to have ALL the previous flags flaying at once. Hope the committee got to go home early, at least.
Bold and simple is best. Indiana, Alaska, South Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico. Also striking are Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas, although the red/white/blue thing is overdone in the US and possibly difficult to recognize from a distance. Kansas’ little sunflower is pretty unique; too bad it’s spoiled by the word KANSAS at the bottom apparently in all-caps Arial Narrow, of all things). The Arkansas flag is kind of a dramatic departure, but it looks like a feed bag label to me (they might not take that as an insult, though).
I learned that here in California. But that doesn’t make the flag any better than it is. That said, it is one of the good ones.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen them all together. The state-seal-on-blue-background is crazy true. Any flag with a state seal kinda sucks.
Add a few letters and numbers and South Dakota has themselves a good license plate.
Drop the state name from my state’s flag (California) and it’s not too bad (although the state-seal-on-blue-background by default puts it in the top half or so).
Maryland’s would look OK at a jousting tournament. Other than that, the best you can say about it is that it’s not a state seal. Or points for originality (compared to other state flags) I guess.
Someone needs to explain Hawaii’s to me.
But i have to go with the consensus. New Mexico, Arizona & Alaska are the best. Colorado and Ohio aren’t too far behind (edge to Ohio because the “O” works better as a design element than a “C”).
Mississippi’s has to be the worst. Outright racism really is a bad thing in a state flag.
… parking on even numbered side of street on even numbered days.
It is a bit wordy and like most state seal or eagle on a blue field flags it is based on regimental colors from the Civil War or the Philippine Insurrection. Ohio’s pennant is derived from artillery guideon of the same period (or so I was taught as a child in the work up to the sesquicentennial in 1953).
Yes, I imagine you are the only one that likes it.
It is better than the average state seal on a blue background flag. But it is still obviously from that lousy vexillological family. Cut out the state seal and change the field color from blue to… well virtually anything else, and you could have a winner. As it is it really has little to offer except yet another variant of the generic state flag. A red border and a bison are insufficient to rescue it.
I would have to go with New Mexico as the single best US state flag. It is simple, unique, and easily identifiable without being harsh on the eye (as compared to say Maryland).
I always enjoyed seeing the New Mexico and Hawaii state flags fluttering when I lived in Albuquerque and Honolulu. As with all other things Texas, I never cottoned to its flag growing up there and as a young adult.
The Texas flag is my favorite, though I admit a bias. New Mexico, Alaska, and South Carolina are all great designs, and while I generally dislike flags with words on them, there’s something cool about the California flag as well.
Maryland’s flag actively offends my eyes. It’s like staring at a test pattern.
For everyone who likes the California flag, a little inside story that might change the way you think about it: the bear depicted on the flag is Monarch, who was captured and put on display as a publicity stunt by William Randolf Hearst. He was kept in a cage for 22 years; his stuffed remains can be seen in the natural history collection at Berkeley.
I pretty much hate most of them; the only ones that appeal to me visually are Tennessee and Texas.
But go ahead and make fun of mystate flag if you wish, I won’t be offended. Yes, it’s the flag of Australia with a crown added above the southern cross, and the big white star removed.
Can’t you just picture a TSA agent pulling someone out of line somewhere to interrogate him about the jihadist insignia he has emblazoned on his backpack?
FWIW, South Carolina is the only one of those states that I’ve actually lived in. Every time the wingnuts go crazy about how a crescent moon as part of a logo represents Islam, I think of the SC flag, and grin.
Maryland’s flag has gotten a lot of love here, but speaking as one who’s spent 15 years of his life in the state, I’ve always thought the damned thing was a mess, with the black-and-yellow quadrants fighting it out with the red-and-white quadrants in a war where everyone loses.
