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The North Star Flag
AN EARLY MINNESOTA FLAG REDESIGN

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BLUE STATE FLAGS
CAN YOU TELL THEM APART?

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Editorial
"From a distance of 100 yards how many Minnesotans can distinguish their state flag from, say, Nebraska's? From 100 feet? Anyone want to try for 10 feet?  It's not that Minnesota has the most prosaic flag of all 50 states. It's that it shares the distinction with more than a dozen others, each content mainly to sew a copy of its state seal in the middle of a blue sheet and then run the thing up a flagpole to see if anyone salutes, or even notices. That's a shame." (Editorial, March 21, 1989)



CONNECTICUT


MAINE


NEVADA


OREGON


VIRGINIA


IDAHO


MICHIGAN


NEW HAMPSHIRE


PENNSYLVANIA


WISCONSIN


INDIANA


MINNESOTA


NEW YORK


SOUTH DAKOTA


KANSAS


MONTANA


NORTH DAKOTA


UTAH (historic)


KENTUCKY


NEBRASKA


OKLAHOMA


VERMONT


   
Do the flags above belong to Minnesota? Nebraska? South Dakota? Virginia? New Hampshire?

See photo-comparison of good flag designs flying
See flag design guides & specialist surveys
(answers to above: Nebraska at left, and Virginia at right)





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