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Notice: All logos on this page are included within the parameters of 17 U.S.C. § 107, which states that the reproduction of a copyrighted work for purposes of criticism and/or comment is not an infringement of copyright. No challenge to the copyrights of these logos is intended by their inclusion here. Posted 2016 July 23 Several years ago I learned of the existence of an organization called the North American Vexillological Association. What, you may ask, is the North American Vexillological Association? Why, it's an association of vexillologists from North America, of course. What else would it be? But I sense that you want a more thorough answer. Fine, it's a bunch of flag geeks. Please understand that I say "flag geek" with sincere respect. After all, if someone decided to call me a "logo geek" I couldn't deny it very convincingly. About the best I could do is wave my arms hysterically and scream "AM NOT!" in a loud voice. It wouldn't fool anyone. Anyway, the NAVA apparently does some fairly serious stuff, but they also have a fair amount of effort devoted to...well, basically to doing to flags what I do to logos. For example, several years ago they ranked the flags of all the U.S. and Canadian states, provinces, and territories. Their scoring system was a bit more subjective than mine — basically members rated the flags on a scale of 1-10 and they averaged the scores — but nonetheless, it was a ranking of the flags. They've done similar things for city flags. And much as I have my perpetual bugaboos, so did NAVA. In fact, in much the same way that I've come up with acronyms like BIC and JACKAL to describe frequently-occurring offenses, the people at NAVA have dubbed one kind of flag the "SOB", which in this case stands for "Seal on Bedsheet". You know the sort: the flag is nothing more than the state seal on a background which is usually blue, and when not blue is usually some other solid color. The voters at NAVA hate those flags. In fact, in the state flag survey the vast majority of SOBs were all bunched together at the bottom. I'm not entirely certain how they differentiated between the various SOBs, but the trend was clear.
About twenty years after the Civil War, the state decided that having the date they tried to secede on their flag was a bit embarrassing, so they replaced it with the date of the Halifax Resolves. They also decided to make the flag look more like Texas by swapping the blue and red (on the original flag the vertical bar at the left was red and the top horizontal bar was blue). I have no idea why they did that, and couldn't find anything about it. Maybe they decided the old flag was bad luck or something.
Not that I'm ever going to actually suggest it to the General Assembly, mind you. That's partly because I have no reason to think they'd do anything other than write me off as some crank. (It's an odd unwritten rule: elementary school kids can write legislators about silly shit like this and the legislators will think it's cute and possibly even act on it, but if an adult does the same thing the legislators will assume the writer has a screw loose.) But it's also because I'm afraid to see what might happen if the state actually decided to redesign the flag. We'd probably get stuck with a SOB like all those other states. And I'd hate to see that, because North Carolina is better than that. Maybe. It should aspire to be, in any case.
Final Score: 145 points.
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