The current flag looks like this, which obviously needs changing:
There is a commission tasked with proposing a new design. A news article about it is available here: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-house-bill-moves-forward-commission-to-redesign-state-flag-and-seal/
The top proposal, called “The North Star Flag”, seems to be a popular favorite.
I gathered these proposals from these two sites: https://newmnflag.org/designs https://vexillology.fandom.com/wiki/Minnesota
Why does it obviously need changing? The new design will be talked about for like aonth…people will love it and hate it, then no one will care again.
Every state whose flag is just the state seal over a blue or white background should be forced to change their flag. The concept is offensively boring.
And caring about a picture on cloth isn’t?
Especially one that only locals see.
- The whole point of a Minnesota flag is to have an easy way to display you’re Minnesotan. Literally half of the state flags look the exact same as ours if there isn’t a wind blowing, and genuinely that number doesn’t go down much even WITH a breeze.
- If we have something more iconic, noticeable at a glance, it’s marketable. Think about Britain’s flag on all their tourist merch. Think about the MOA star on everything to do with the mall, think “I <3 NYU” mugs, shirts, hats.
Visual aesthetics aside, in the Seal of Minnesota (the busy bit in the center, which has official uses besides the flag), the native on horseback is riding off into the sunset (westward, the 1983 edit notwithstanding) in the most gerenous interpretation or being driven off by the settler in a less charitable one (see rifle in the foreground). Regardless, the message is one of displacement of the native peoples by the mostly European-heritage settlers for the sake of “civilization”. It’s not something we should display proudly as an embodiment of our state’s core values, and for that reason has been contentious for years.
Some reading if anyone is more interested in the history: #1 and #2
Current flag is nice. Maybe take the spear out of the guy’s hand, but otherwise why not include images of the native population. Unless those dates have something to do with killing loads of indigenous Americans, in which case…maybe take them off as well.
The current flag is ahhh, pretty bad. Like its just awful looking, and the native american racism too.
Those last 5 are absolutely unhinged and I love them. I think that number 4 is really the best choice though
I like how the farther down you go on the proposals, the more cooked they get
