Which state has the best flag?

"Maxima Speed" (maximaspeed) 08/31/2017 at 23:37 • Filed to: None

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Answer: you’re all wrong. Ohio is the best because we are the only ones with a Swallow Tail, non-rectangular, flag called a “Burgee”. It’s awesome.

Svend > Maxima Speed 08/31/2017 at 23:45

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As a Brit, I’ve always found the Hawaiian flag rather good looking.

No idea why.

Go figure, ay.

CB > Maxima Speed 08/31/2017 at 23:46

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I like Nunavut’s. It has an Inukshuk on it.

Maxima Speed > Svend 08/31/2017 at 23:47

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You would. You’re right though it is pretty awesome, anytime your Union Jack is on a flag it elevates it into “cool flag” territory.

fhrblig > Maxima Speed 08/31/2017 at 23:54

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AestheticsInMotion > Maxima Speed 08/31/2017 at 23:56

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Washington has the most boring

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Maxima Speed 08/31/2017 at 23:58

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The correct answer is Texas, and I’m not even from Texas.

Maryland is pretty great too. Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Tennessee all get honorable mention.

SpeedSix > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:01

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I like Ohio’s flag.

EDIT:

Answer: you’re all wrong

Oh, I suppose I’m wrong.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > AestheticsInMotion 09/01/2017 at 00:02

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Delaware’s is a fuck up too:

razorbeamteam > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:09

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I have, in my possession, an Ohio flag which flew over the capital for a day. Are you jealous?

Maxima Speed > razorbeamteam 09/01/2017 at 00:10

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Yes

Maxima Speed > SpeedSix 09/01/2017 at 00:10

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Hmmm, kinda screwed my self with that one. Well played sir.

Dusty Ventures > AestheticsInMotion 09/01/2017 at 00:13

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Nah. Ours is even mostly white

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 09/01/2017 at 00:13

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It has my birthday on it, so I approve.

Dusty Ventures > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:14

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Oregon, because theirs is two-sided.

Front

Back

Xyl0c41n3 > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:15

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Clearly there’s no competition:

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Dusty Ventures 09/01/2017 at 00:18

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no

Dusty Ventures > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 09/01/2017 at 00:20

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Don’t dis the beaver

Maxima Speed > Dusty Ventures 09/01/2017 at 00:20

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Cool, I forgot about that.

Svend > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:23

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It’s also the story behind why the Union Flag is the canton on the Hawaiian flag.

http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2008/10/21/is_that_the_flag

Pat Duffus of Clearwater, Florida writes: What is the story behind the Hawaiian flag? When I see it I am reminded more of Britain than Hawaii. Is there a Hawaiian flag that precedes it?

Pat’s right about the British connection. King Kamehameha I flew a British flag throughout his kingdom in the late 18th century, given to him as a token of friendship from fellow ruler King George III.

However, during the War of 1812, an American flag was raised over Kamehameha’s home to placate American interests. It was soon removed after British officers in Kamehameha’s court opposed to it.

Instead, Kamehameha commissioned a new flag—one that incorporated elements of both nations.

The result is the flag we are familiar with today: the Union Jack of the British Empire sits in the top left corner, while the body reflects the stripes of America’s Old Glory. The Hawaii flag’s eight stripes represent the major Islands. Historians credit its design to an officer of the Royal Navy, who based it on a British naval flag.

While the ensign has become the official state flag of Hawaii, there are some that argue it is not the original flag of the Hawaiian kingdom.

The Kanaka Maoli —or “native Hawaiian”—flag (right) is said to have been Kamehameha’s personal flag long before the modern Hawaiian flag. British navy Captain Lord George Paulet destroyed it when he took control of Hawaii for five months in 1843.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35890670

More surprisingly, perhaps, Hawaii , which in 1959 became the 50th state to join the United States, also includes the union jack. This dates back to 1793, when British captain George Vancouver presented one (without the diagonal red cross of St Patrick, as this preceded the 1801 Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland) to King Kamehameha I. The union jack flew as Hawaii’s sole flag until 1816, when red, white and blue stripes were added. It has remained a part of the flag.

“It might seem strange, as Hawaii was never British,” says Graham Bartram, chief vexillologist at the Flag Institute, “but it works as a symbol of friendship. What’s interesting is that, when the union jack changed in 1801, so did the flag of Hawaii, even though there wasn’t an official connection. ”

Emphasis mine.

For Sweden > Dusty Ventures 09/01/2017 at 00:28

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Baby take my hand, don’t dis the beaver

Maxima Speed > Svend 09/01/2017 at 00:29

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That’s pretty cool, I had no idea.

Shift24 > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:32

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As someone from ohio, yeah we got going for us and rollercoasters, oh and corn. Did we mention corn? Yeah we have that

Svend > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 00:43

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The fact that they not only kept it but even amended it with the St. Patrick’s Cross after Ireland joined the union. That’s quite something.

Each flag tells a story and has a history.

Svend > fhrblig 09/01/2017 at 00:49

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I got a sticker of that flag from a detailing product company in the U.S. (it may of been Adam’s Car Care Products). I thought it was their comporate logo.

My bad.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Svend 09/01/2017 at 01:26

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The question is. Will they be forced to change it when Mississippi is forced to?

LongbowMkII > Dusty Ventures 09/01/2017 at 01:39

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It’d be cool if the beaver was the front and the back was blank.

Svend > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 09/01/2017 at 02:01

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Mississippi has the confederate flag within their flag.

I don’t see how Hawaii would have to or want to change their flag.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Svend 09/01/2017 at 03:50

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‘Cause enemies of ‘Murica!

Svend > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 09/01/2017 at 04:10

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EDIT: Nevermind.

garagemonkee > Shift24 09/01/2017 at 06:02

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And metric tons of the finest heroin from West Virginia.

JeepJeremy > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 06:13

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Ohio has the best flag!

for Michigan > Svend 09/01/2017 at 06:27

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What gets me about the Colorado flag is that even though it looks like a corporate logo designed by Saul Bass in the 1960s, it’s actually from 1911. Andrew Carlisle Carson was a little ahead of his time.

for Michigan > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 06:30

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As a Michigander, I’m fairly certain the answer is Texas or Colorado.

Ohio’s flag is certainly… different. But being different doesn’t make it better. The layout of the stars is all wrong.

punkgoose17 > Shift24 09/01/2017 at 06:58

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The Cincinnati Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art are really nice, and free. Cedar point is good you have the best flag, and there are no other good things about Ohio...

Saab wagon is best wagon-now with less Saab > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 07:02

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This is the former flag of New Mexico. Look upon it and despair.

Legitimately though, I’ve always like the Alaskan flag. Simple but unique:

Sweet Trav > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 07:45

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Yeah, nothing about Ohio will ever be cool.

Signed

- The Entire State of Michigan.

Party-vi > razorbeamteam 09/01/2017 at 08:07

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I have in my an possession an American flag that flew over NSA and the Republican Palace in Baghdad. Shit is awesome

Dave the car guy , still here > Party-vi 09/01/2017 at 08:45

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Very cool.

Dave the car guy , still here > Svend 09/01/2017 at 08:46

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Well played sir!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 09:11

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New Mexico has the best state flag. Hell, half the people I know in Southern NM have the Zia symbol tattooed on them somewhere.

Maxima Speed > garagemonkee 09/01/2017 at 09:15

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True, that.

Maxima Speed > Sweet Trav 09/01/2017 at 09:21

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You guys are lucky we didn’t annex you back in the 1835. And we could have called you the North West territory

Sweet Trav > Maxima Speed 09/01/2017 at 09:22

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Yeah, And we stuck your ass with Toledo while getting the Upper Peninsula. I think we all know who got the better deal there.

Dusty Ventures > Shift24 09/01/2017 at 10:19

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Aviation museums

Dusty Ventures > for Michigan 09/01/2017 at 10:23

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“The layout of the stars is all wrong”

Corkscrew'd > Maxima Speed 09/02/2017 at 16:28

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I see your Ohio State Flag, and raise you the State Flag of Maryland:

“ The Maryland flag contains the family crest of the Calvert and Crossland families. Maryland was founded as an English colony in 1634 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. The black and Gold designs belong to the Calvert family. The red and white design belongs to the Crossland family. ”

- 50states.com

There’s a lot of history with Maryland’s flag, but it’s also a striking design reminiscent of the flags and family crests of medieval Europe. Considering that Maryland never changed the design at all after the revolution, it looks like no other state flag. 

ranwhenparked > Maxima Speed 09/06/2017 at 19:54

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My personal favorite is Hawaii.

Most state flags were designed originally as regimental standards during the Civil War, and are actually pretty terrible from a vexillological standpoint. Hawaii’s dates to when the state was an independent country, and is therefore more of an actual “flag” flag, if you know what I mean. Texas is pretty good, too.