Re:Roman Mars Explains the Genius of the Chicago Flag
by defen on Saturday May 16, 2015 @06:36PM
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> It reminds me of a coat of arms more than just a flag.
That's because it is from Lord Baltimore's family's coats of arms - look up Crossland and Calvert coats of arms.
Re:Roman Mars Explains the Genius of the Chicago Flag
by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 16, 2015 @09:44PM
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> Looking at all of the state flags, it seems that the Virginia style "detailed seal on a blue field" is pretty common.
Wow, you're not wrong about that. I figured "seal on a background" would be a common type, but... why are they all blue?
Seal on white:
IL
MA
RI
DE (?)
WA
NJ
CT
ID
IN
KS
KY
LA
ME
MI
MN
MT
NE
NV
NH
NY
ND
OK
OR
PA
SD
UT
VT
VA
WI
Looking at all of the state flags [1], it seems that the Virginia style "detailed seal on a blue field" is pretty common. Thinking back to my time in New Hampshire, I'm realizing that no one really flies the NH flag except for government buildings. In the absence of a remarkable flag, the late Man in the Mountain is usually the thing that you see used to symbolically indicate, "This is New Hampshire", if any symbolism is used at all.
South Carolinas is another flag that seems to get a lot of love from its citizens.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states