Minnesota panel chooses new state flag featuring North Star to replace old flag seen as racist
Minnesota panel chooses new state flag featuring North Star to replace old flag seen as racist
A state panel says Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right.
Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right, a special commission decided Tuesday as it picked a replacement for an older design that many Native Americans considered offensive.
The State Emblems Redesign Commission chose the final version on an 11-1 vote after finalizing a new state seal that depicts a loon, the state bird. Unless the Legislature rejects them, the new flag and seal will automatically become official April 1, 2024, when Minnesota observes Statehood Day.
The star echoes Minnesota’s state motto of “Star of the North.” The commission’s chairman, Luis Fitch, said that to him, the light blue represents the Mississippi River, “the most important river in the United States,” pointing to the North Star. But he acknowledged it could mean other things to other people. Symmetry and simplicity won out over other versions, including ones that included a green stripe for the state’s agricultural heritage.
CPG Grey will be so excited.
47Relevant: CGP Grey Grades State Flags!
34The new flag is badass!
27Big day for !vexillology@lemmy.world
24We'll be trying to get our hands on a nice flag with the original design#1953 on it to fly outside our house. This one is fine I guess, but it stings with what could have been.
17Cool flag. I like the solid light blue over the stripes that were an option, K.I.S.S..
Feel like with that simplified they could have done something with color a little more interesting than the dark blue to really emphasize the shape of that dark blue region but if you can't give this a 10/10 your standards are too high.
14The new one suffers from aluminimalism whereas the old one looks like something my mom would stick to the fridge with magnets to show how proud she was of my work in fifth grade that I spent all Thanksgiving afternoon working on by myself.
8I like it fine, and I bet you could incorporate those design elements into a lot of cool merch, which is a nice rule-of-thumb for useful flags.
8B2 - Blue, white, green, with the same star - should have won, imo. But I don't live in the state, so my opinion is irrelevant.
7As a Texan, I approve of this design.
7It looks a bit like the logo of some shipping company.
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