Really makes you wonder how many good flags have gone by the wayside because the city commission or such had no taste or were suffering a nepotism issue.Louisiana, South Carolina, Alaska and Indiana are the only states that follow the default blue flag template who pull it off well since Louisiana and South Carolina use traditional heraldic symbols, and Alaska and Indiana use stars in cool patterns.
Meanwhile I actually entered a flag contest and seal a while ago for this town and I honestly put a lot of effort into the symbolism after researching the town and using heraldry correct designs ans and symbols so I thought I would be a Finalist.
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Well the assholes didn't even email me to let me know I didn't make the finals, with the finalists consisting of recolors of their city logo with the winning flag design being the city logo simply with red and white reversed and the winner's seal was even less effort with the logo 1:1 copy pasted on into a seal.
Probably a lot because a lot of these boards are made of soccermoms and boomers.
Fun fact it was personally designed by Hitler who according to Albert Speer was absolutely obsessed with every detail about it with more attention paid to it than any other state symbol he created (mind you the official Nazi flag is 1/24th off center on purpose he was that autistic), so much so after designing it in 1935 he went back and edited it again in 1938 to make the lines of the cross connect with the borders of the disk.
I never liked the Kek flag mainly due to the fact the kek symbol isn't squared and it only works in one orientation.
The new Provo flag always reminded me too much of the Obama symbol
American state flags aren't a high bar in the 1st place though.
Remove the text and make the golden circle one solid circle rather than two rings and it's an alright flag.
