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The Guilford Courthouse flag is a fun example of "someone described the Stars and Stripes to me while I was kinda distracted":
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Ooo, Wikipedia has a nice selection of American county flags. Anchorage is cool  Imperial County, CA is busy but striking  St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana is nice and phallic  Baltimore County is oddly pleasing  Loudoun County, Virginia has a lot going on  And Elkhart County, Indiana is, uh 
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Jun 21, 2020 21:56
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I can't find any evidence of this in actual flag form but this is what Wikipedia says is Inglewood's city flag and, my god
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Jun 21, 2020 22:07
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SlothfulCobra posted:
The upside-down text was a deliberate troll by a guy who wanted to de-emphasize the "state sovereignty" part of the motto! quote:Illinois Secretary of State Sharon Tyndale spearheaded the drive to create a third state seal for Illinois. In 1867, he asked State Senator Allen C. Fuller to introduce legislation requiring a new seal, and suggested to Fuller that the words of the state motto be reversed, from "State Sovereignty, National Union", to "National Union, State Sovereignty". However, the bill passed by the legislature on March 7, 1867, kept the original wording. Despite declining his suggestion, the legislature nonetheless entrusted Tyndale with designing the new seal. And Tyndale managed to (literally) twist the legislature's intent; he kept the words in the correct order on the banner, but the banner twists, so the word "Sovereignty" is upside down, arguably making it less readable.
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Jun 30, 2020 19:37
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Just eliminating the date and making the light blue a solid wavering stripe would be great IMO. I actually really love the morphing bird bit.
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Jun 30, 2020 22:45
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Phlegmish posted:It's still superior to half the rest of American state flags, which are all just a guy and a tree on a blue background It occurred to me that I didn't know what the two dates on my home state's flag meant, and lol just lol:  First off, we adopted this flag at the same time we opted to join the Confederacy. The date on the bottom is the date we seceded from the Union. The top date is the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, which I had never heard of: quote:The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is a text published in 1819 with the claim that it was the first declaration of independence made in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. It was supposedly signed on May 20, 1775, in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a committee of citizens of Mecklenburg County, who declared independence from Great Britain after hearing of the battle of Lexington. If the story is true, the Mecklenburg Declaration preceded the United States Declaration of Independence by more than a year. The authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration has been disputed since it was published, forty-four years after it was reputedly written. There is no verifiable evidence to confirm the original document's existence and no reference to it has been found in extant newspapers from 1775. We talked about the state seal in history class and learned, like, the state seashell and poo poo, but we definitely never learned anything about the flag and now I know why!
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Aug 26, 2020 16:11
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Incidentally, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence thing reminds me strongly of NC's ongoing dispute with Ohio over who gets to claim the Wright Brothers. Our license plates say "First in Flight," theirs say "Birthplace of Aviation," and they loving haaaate that NC is more strongly associated with the first flight than they are. They slapped an astronaut next to a biplane on their state quarter just to shore up their bona fides in this extremely pointless debate.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:22
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Badger of Basra posted:NC seceded in 1776? They really got started early. Oop I completely bungled this, was looking at a source on an older version of the flag which did use the Confederacy date. Forgive my moronacity.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:21
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't anything is going to top this globe. same energy 
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