Emphasis added. RI State Flag No clam. No blue bug.
Hope. Well, there’s Hope St in Providence…
I wouldn’t write off the possibility of a California subdivision at some point. There’s arguments for how it could be beneficial for all the parts (maybe more than two).
But I always thought the first fracture would naturally fall somewhere between the Bay Area and the Los Angeles sprawl.
Yeah. As much as I’d hate to give up Paso Robles, they can have San Luis Obispo County and south.
Absolutely no way they get Monterey County. You’ll have to pry that from our cold, dead hands.
And if Humbolt CO and north want to go their won way… I’m cool with that. We can grow weed just fine here!!
And again–compare the Chicago city flag, on purely design grounds, to almost any other North American city flag.
It’s just much easier for (legitimate) feelings of local or regional pride to coalesce when there’s a good symbol.
I don’t know how much the official Pittsburgh civic flag gets used, but it shares the black and gold scheme of all the major sports teams, and that is certainly an effective symbol.
Roman Mars of the 99 Percent Invisible podcast has gone on at some length about bad civic flag design — Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed
I believe the first time he addressed the issue in his podcast, he talked about the good design and popularity of the Chicago flag—the District of Columbia flag was mentioned as being just as good.
In my view, the absolute best flag of any kind used by an American entity is the New Mexico State flag. Perfection.
As an Ohioan, I would tend to agree that Ohioans tend to prefer sports iconography, but the swallow-tailed Ohio state burgee is distinctive enough that it has some degree of visibility in the wild.
We have a completely unremarkable state flag. It is just the State Seal on a blue background. State pride runs pretty deep when you talk about Husker football though.
The retired football coach, despite his lack of any apparent political ability was elected to two terms in Congress. In his second run he received 93% of the vote…
My views on state flags, in detail — Judging state flags - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
I live in New Mexico. Our state pride consists mostly of “Thank goodness we are not a bunch of G–d— Texans.”
I live in Florida. We don’t have state pride, we have state “please don’t embarrass us today”.
Yep there isn’t too much state pride here on the Space Coast. On the other hand there is some American flag-waving since so many are in the defense and space industry. At least there is compared to what I’ve seen in the Orlando and Sarasota areas. I’m not sure how it compares to American pride in upstate NY since the absolute number of flags is less but is probably higher per capita 
Quite a bit, and with good reason, Nevada being the best state in the union.
I see a lot of Ohio state shapes because it’s a recognizable shape. But it is mostly paired with CLE (Cleveland) pride logos. Like this: http://image.spreadshirtmedia.com/image-server/v1/compositions/102343837/views/1,width=190,height=190,appearanceId=120,version=1440417743.png/ohio-heart-cleveland-men-s-t_design.png I want to get an Ohio tattoo some time soon but it will definitely have the northeast heart.
We’re all proud Ohioans but let’s make it clear, we ain’t no Cincinnatti.
I grew up in Oregon. We did not have state pride, as such, but I seem to remember a sort of “fuck off, you can’t even pronounce ‘Oregon’” mindset. We even seemed to have an intrastate “fuck off” thing going on across the mountains.
I love the Reds and Cincinnati chili (n.b. spelling), but yeah culturally Cincinnati is in Alabama.
I see more regional that state pride around here. Western Pennsylvania feels its slightly better than say Ohio or West Virginia but most thank their God that we aren’t Philadelphia.
I love my home state of Kansas, but when I was in the military, all those years ago, I hated telling people where I’m from.
It was all “How’s Dorothy?”
At least we are proud to be the home of Eisenhower. Sure, he was born in Texas but came to Abilene when he was only a month old. Abilene is where he came “home” and where the museum and presidential library are located.
I’m not really convinced most of my current neighbors even know what state they live in.
Another Texas resident here. I daresay there’s enough that we could spare some for a few other states with lower self-esteem.
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When I mentioned Texas I didn’t just mean the flag. It is a state where you can buy a Texas-shaped version of almost any item you can conceive of. Ice cube molds, wall clocks, cookie cutters, tortilla chips, floor mats (with blubonnets on them, natch.) There are even Texas Passports.
I don’t think we have a ton of, specifically, Wisconsin pride, but there’s an unbelievable amount of amount of [Green Bay] Packer support as well as probably normal amount of Brewer’s pride (and a even some for the Bucks). But, honestly, you almost can’t drive down a street without seeing a Packers Flag somewhere, at least in my city*. There’s also a lot of local (Milwaukee) support, but the hipsters are really pushing that and I’m really close to hipster central so seeing Milwaukee t-shirts is pretty common, and it doesn’t hurt that there’s a major university in our city.
*Anytime you read a Cracked style article about Milwaukee, it’ll usually mention at ‘Packer Pride’ somewhere near cheese and beer.