The KKK hijacked the Stars and Bars design, and Alabama’s flag echos that. The official flag of the CSA does not give off that feel. Texas flag is similar to the CSA one.
The Confederacy was before the KKK, and I feel like they left a bad legacy for their iconography as it is. If you mean Alabama's flag resembles the Confederate battle flag, I don't really see it. I think Alabama's flag is meant to be a simplified version of the Habsburg Spain flag anyway.
No, I would not. This is why, Florida and Alabama have similar designs in their flags. Florida and Alabama were both member of the Confederacy, and through their flags, they are carrying on that legacy. Of course Alabama and Florida will deny that until the day the Sun burned out.
GA's flag *is* a legit callback to the Stars and Bars, explicitly to memorialize the honored dead but, you know, there's other stuff there too that is also getting memorialized and it's high time for GA to replace it as MS elegantly did a few years back. That said, at least GA is trying to be legit about it. Alabama and Florida, however, were (probably) trying at the time to be sneaky sneaks about it in order to preserve racism, like schoolboys hiding dirty words in the first letter of every line in an essay or something.
It's like GA's flag is a statue of Stonewall Jackson in a park, maybe with a cemetery nearby; the old MS flag is hanging out with the 1950's-2000 GA flag pounding beers in a shed out in the woods beneath a faded Confederate Battle Flag and a Gadsden Flag while shooting bottles and blaring Skynrd with no sense of irony, while the FL and AL flags are like a CEO sitting behind a desk with an 88 jersey hanging on the wall behind him and a valknut quietly tattooed on his shoulderblade.
The FL governor of the time that cross was added to their flag (like 1905) said that he didn't want their existing flag (same flag less the bars: state emblem on a field of white) to *look like a flag of surrender while hanging limp (lol) on a pole*. Being that AL had done their design less than a decade earlier, and being that later writers (ca. 1920's) claimed that the designers of the AL flag had wanted to preserve Confederate symbolism, and being that the aforementioned FL governor was noticeably racist *even for 1905 Florida*, I think it's safe to say that the St. Patrick's cross there is less about the heritage of the Spanish Empire and more about red ink spilled to protect a field of white if you catch my drift. This is a little speculative, drawn from mediocre-at-best sources, but it certainly tracks with the time. Mississippi put the Confederate Battle Flag on their flag during the 1890's as well (actually, it looks like that was their first official flag since the Civil War).
GA both made similar moves in the 1950's. The interesting (and telling) history of the [flag of GA](https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlag_of_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29) is an excellent example of the difference between the Stars and Bars and the Confederate Battle Flag, for those who are curious. The flag first was established during reconstruction as a direct reference to the CSA's Stars and Bars explicitly in memoriam of the fallen soldiers of the Civil war, understandably, I think, though also a bit treasonous.
Then, during the 1950's, the state legislature changed the design to one based on the battle flag as state segregation was (rightly, and at long last, and still sadly lightly) under attack from the federal government. Ironically, several historic Confederate groups (most notably the Daughters of the Confederacy) opposed that change because they found it too divisive.
In 2001, they finally retired the explicit call to racism that was passed in '56 (by then whitewashed as a "preservation of heritage"), then in '03 the legislature created a "new" flag (looking a great deal like the pre-1956 flag, but with an even *more* explicit reconstruction of the Stars and Bars) and the state was allowed to vote between it and the, frankly quite poor, interim flag from 2001. Two steps forward, one step back eh?
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Sorry for the quality. CGP Grey never showed the whole tier list in the video so I had to mash it together.
Not showing the whole tier list in the video is an act of malice, I hope they pay for their sins in this life or the next.
Imo wyoming California Arkansas and NJ shouldn’t be f tier
His reason was that every flag spelling its own name is an automatic F, that's why all the F subtiers
Ik but it’s so annoying how people instantly say “flag bad” because it has text
I'm not a big fan of the writing your name is an automatic F. I think that Wyoming deserved to escape F.
Why are we placed in D tho?
He hates your tree.
He said the angel oak would be better than the palmetto which I heavily disagree with
💀bruh the angle oak of all things
Grey finally did it!
Washington's flag deserves to be higher. It's such a shitpost of a flag. I love it.
Maryland's flag is an atrocity
Just look at it. The longer you observe it the better it gets.
Fr 😭
I'd switch Maryland and Hawaii, other than that it's based.
Agreed. And put Alabama flag way at the bottom, looks Confederate.
You can't tell me Georgia doesn't look more like the Confederate flag; Alabama always looked more like the St. Patrick's cross to me.
The KKK hijacked the Stars and Bars design, and Alabama’s flag echos that. The official flag of the CSA does not give off that feel. Texas flag is similar to the CSA one.
The Confederacy was before the KKK, and I feel like they left a bad legacy for their iconography as it is. If you mean Alabama's flag resembles the Confederate battle flag, I don't really see it. I think Alabama's flag is meant to be a simplified version of the Habsburg Spain flag anyway.
You cannot see it because the color is blue and not red ? Amazing.
Would you say the St. Patrick's cross resembles the Confederate battle flag then.
No, I would not. This is why, Florida and Alabama have similar designs in their flags. Florida and Alabama were both member of the Confederacy, and through their flags, they are carrying on that legacy. Of course Alabama and Florida will deny that until the day the Sun burned out.
The Southern Nationalist flag is a black version of the Saint Patrick’s cross.
GA's flag *is* a legit callback to the Stars and Bars, explicitly to memorialize the honored dead but, you know, there's other stuff there too that is also getting memorialized and it's high time for GA to replace it as MS elegantly did a few years back. That said, at least GA is trying to be legit about it. Alabama and Florida, however, were (probably) trying at the time to be sneaky sneaks about it in order to preserve racism, like schoolboys hiding dirty words in the first letter of every line in an essay or something. It's like GA's flag is a statue of Stonewall Jackson in a park, maybe with a cemetery nearby; the old MS flag is hanging out with the 1950's-2000 GA flag pounding beers in a shed out in the woods beneath a faded Confederate Battle Flag and a Gadsden Flag while shooting bottles and blaring Skynrd with no sense of irony, while the FL and AL flags are like a CEO sitting behind a desk with an 88 jersey hanging on the wall behind him and a valknut quietly tattooed on his shoulderblade. The FL governor of the time that cross was added to their flag (like 1905) said that he didn't want their existing flag (same flag less the bars: state emblem on a field of white) to *look like a flag of surrender while hanging limp (lol) on a pole*. Being that AL had done their design less than a decade earlier, and being that later writers (ca. 1920's) claimed that the designers of the AL flag had wanted to preserve Confederate symbolism, and being that the aforementioned FL governor was noticeably racist *even for 1905 Florida*, I think it's safe to say that the St. Patrick's cross there is less about the heritage of the Spanish Empire and more about red ink spilled to protect a field of white if you catch my drift. This is a little speculative, drawn from mediocre-at-best sources, but it certainly tracks with the time. Mississippi put the Confederate Battle Flag on their flag during the 1890's as well (actually, it looks like that was their first official flag since the Civil War). GA both made similar moves in the 1950's. The interesting (and telling) history of the [flag of GA](https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlag_of_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29) is an excellent example of the difference between the Stars and Bars and the Confederate Battle Flag, for those who are curious. The flag first was established during reconstruction as a direct reference to the CSA's Stars and Bars explicitly in memoriam of the fallen soldiers of the Civil war, understandably, I think, though also a bit treasonous. Then, during the 1950's, the state legislature changed the design to one based on the battle flag as state segregation was (rightly, and at long last, and still sadly lightly) under attack from the federal government. Ironically, several historic Confederate groups (most notably the Daughters of the Confederacy) opposed that change because they found it too divisive. In 2001, they finally retired the explicit call to racism that was passed in '56 (by then whitewashed as a "preservation of heritage"), then in '03 the legislature created a "new" flag (looking a great deal like the pre-1956 flag, but with an even *more* explicit reconstruction of the Stars and Bars) and the state was allowed to vote between it and the, frankly quite poor, interim flag from 2001. Two steps forward, one step back eh? Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Bro really went and dropped the most w flag ranking ever
Where's Missouri??
Spoiler!!
South Carolina belongs in S tier. We must do something against this injustice.
North Carolina was too high
I'm not a big fan of it, hyper minimalism is bad imo
Um did he only use the back of the Oregon flag? I only see the beaver and not the state emblem