Minnesota is officially flying its new flag. What happens to the old one?
Minnesota officially raises its new state flag
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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officially adopted its new state flag on Saturday, making the old flag history. So what happens to the old flag now that it is obsolete?
The old flag, which the Minnesota Legislature adopted in 1957, will no longer fly on any official government building.
Before the new flag was raised at sunrise, the outgoing state flags were retired by the Minnesota National Guard.
there had been discussion about changing the state flag. Not only did it violate the tenets of “good flag design” by flag experts, but some had issues with the imagery on the flag, which featured a White settler tilling land as an Indigenous man rides horseback.
The redesign commission spent four months considering more than 2,100 submissions from the public.
The new flag includes two shades of blue, which is a nod to Minnesota’s waters; an eight-pointed star for the “North Star State” that mirrors the design on the state capitol rotunda floor; and an abstract depiction of the shape of the state.
Flag expert Ted Kaye, secretary of the North American Vexillological Association, told WCCO in December he gives the final design an A+.
Some Minnesota Republican lawmakers wanted to halt the new flag’s rollout and give Minnesotans a chance to provide more feedback on the design but were unsuccessful in their efforts.
Riley Moser
Source: cbsnews.com