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.
Too bad they didn’t go with the Polaris Tri-color. I agree with Grey that it was the best of the color variations.
I agree. I do like the tri color and would have been happy with it, but there’s a quote from whom I cannot remember that essentially is “flag design is finding the perfect flag and then dialing it down a notch”. And to that end, I think it succeeds wonderfully.
It’s modern but classic. Detailed but not busy. Inclusive but not all-encompassing. It’s pretty amazing.
I am glad they changed the star design; I think the new one is much better.
They were both good, but I think they made the more-refined “high-brow” decision by going with fewer colors.
I’m actually jealous of this flag. Only downside is it’s kind of hard to see against the blue sky, lol.
I think the 2 tones of blue make it look more like a basic corporate design than “high-brow”
I don’t even know what Minnesota’s flag looked like.
Uh, no one is going to miss that.
Don’t worry, Republican legislators are already in frothing rage about the change. I’m sure it has nothing to do with them wanting to keep the problematic imagery in the current one of native Americans being driven off their land. /s
Also they’re spreading some conspiracy theory the new flag is supposed to look like the flag of Somalia or something and that this is a prelude to Sharia law being imposed. I wish I was joking. Yeah, because it has blue colors and a star in it, it must be an homage to Somalia, couldn’t have anything to do with being the “land of 10,000 lakes” and “the north star state.” Or even the old flag, which get this, is blue with a big star in it.
I also liked the version with the stripes better, but this is very nice too, and anything is better than the atrocious current one. The new seal with the loon is very nice too.
Other states that just lazily slapped their seals on to a blue background take note and get to fixing them up please.
New seal:
Libtard snowflakes don’t even know what a seal looks like. It sure ain’t looks like a bird, I tell ya
Loonie flag?
Why are the using the same bird as the Canadian money?
Is Minnesota signaling they intend to join Canada?
No that was the tricolor variation that preceded this final design, and it actually did look like a Somalia flag. I think this one will be pretty well liked by pretty much everyone. The only people who won’t like it will instinctively not like it because of the taint of wokeness as a motive to change it. Whatever. But at the end of the day, it was a trash flag and everyone will ultimately agree that it’s better now.
Ironically the changes brought it closer to the actual flag of Somalia which is just light blue with a star on it (the three stripes were from some provincial flag, obviously cherry picked out of the many different flags with green blue and white in them to try and rile people up). I don’t care though I think it was a stupid argument anyways. I liked the look of the stripes better, but I like this one too. Just was very tired at seeing the very predictable rhetoric from the right in response to a positive change correcting an ugly poorly designed flag. Glad there’s a new one now.
I cant make out the racism. Is that supposed to be a slave? It looks like a taco bell employee the way hes dressed
How is that racist? Native americans are a big part of the state’s history
It’s worse than the original design with the white/green/blue tri-colour on the right.
But still a big improvement.
Oh cgp grey’s favorite won
Cool. Now he should bring back HI instead of leaving its Patreon up for three years. I don’t care that it only collected money when episodes released, the optics of it matter.
