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There’s never been a better time for North Carolina to amend its flag. Other states have recently changed their flags to great success. Utah’s flag replacement came into effect this year and has been met with widespread acceptance and appreciation by the public. Mississippi had a high-profile flag change in 2021 and garnered great public enthusiasm. Other states want to change their flag as well, with Minnesota establishing a commission to explore the matter this year.

Have you thought about North Carolina’s flag recently? Chances are, probably not. For many people in the state, the flag often just fades into the background. They pass it on the highway, see it in front of a local building now and again, but don’t ever consider it. The flag isn’t something that’s particularly valued, admired or even thought about. It just exists, and that’s all that can be said about it.

In essence, flags are symbols, so their components should imply meaning not just state it. The color scheme is the flag’s greatest strength with the colors being complementary and distinguishable. The North Carolina flag fails on the “no lettering” point and gets a point off for putting the state’s initials on the flag.

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Brown long led efforts to ensure American flags are American-made. He first introduced the bill in 2011 and the Senate quickly passed it. Brown reintroduced it in 2013 and the Senate again passed the legislation. Brown continued to introduce his All American Flag Act and in 2023, the Senate passed the bill for the third and final time.

“American flags – bought with American taxpayer dollars – should be made in America, period. And now they will be,” said Brown. “Because of our years of effort, American flags bought by the federal government will be produced and manufactured in America, by American workers with American materials. The flags that fly over federal buildings and military bases will now be completely American made. And the flags given to families honoring their loved one’s service and sacrifice for our country will finally be completely made in America.”

The modern North Carolina flag has its origins in 1885, when it originally passed the NC House and Senate in only 32 days, which, in terms of legislation, is lightning fast. In an average session, nothing legislators think is important takes 32 days to pass through the General Assembly. This clearly wasn’t their main priority, and the apathy of the General Assembly in 1885 has become the apathy of NC citizens today. So what did people at the time think of the State flag’s creation?

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The law requires the federal government to only buy American flags completely produced and manufactured in the United States, with 100 percent American-made materials.

Think about other states, like Texas, Maryland and South Carolina. What about those flags inspires such pride? Well, they all tend to follow a set of guidelines for flag design compiled and presented in the North American Vexillological Association’s pamphlet “‘Good’ Flag, ‘Bad’ Flag.” First, keep it simple. Second, use meaningful symbolism. Third, use two to three basic colors. Fourth, no lettering or seals and fifth, be distinctive or be related.

How does North Carolina score on these guidelines? Well, the flag is relatively simple in layout, but the dates have to be specifically memorized, making it difficult to recall the design. Furthermore, those dates relate to important contributions in the history of North Carolina, but the fact that they have to have the full date spelled out on the flag is explicit; the opposite of being symbolic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that his bipartisan All-American Flag Act was signed into law.

Prior to Brown’s legislation, the federal government was only required to buy flags that contain just 50 percent American-made materials, meaning half of the materials in flags flown at our military bases and other federal buildings can be made in China. The law now requires the government to buy flags that are produced entirely with American-made materials and manufactured completely in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Data, in 2015 the dollar value of U.S. imports of American flags was $4.4 million. Of that amount, $4 million of imported flags came from China. In 2017, the U.S. imported 10 million American flags. Of those, all but 50,000 came from China.

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Well, as it turns out, they didn’t. Some newspapers only reported the name of the bill in the context of listing other bills being proposed and passed. Others simply described the flag, and just two opinion pieces were published by our research, neither of which had a positive view of the new flag.

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The only other development was in 1991 with two changes to the flag: widening the blue field and, the most important amendment of all, removing the commas from the dates on the flag. How long did those simple amendments take, you may ask? A total of 84 days, nearly three times as long as the original bill took.

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Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the legislation. In November 2023, the Senate unanimously passed Brown’s legislation after the bill passed with a bipartisan vote out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

North Carolinians have plenty to be proud of: the natural beauty of the state we live in as well as its history of exploration, innovation and advocacy. From the Appalachian Mountains to the Outer Banks, the Roanoke Colony to the first public university, the revolutionaries of Mecklenburg and Halifax counties to the civil rights protesters of Greensboro, and even the Wright Brothers to Pepsi Cola, there’s so much of our history which is inspirational and innovative.

Lastly, North Carolina’s flag, without the text and banners, is simply a flipped flag of Texas. It’s not distinctive, and the layout isn’t related to anything at all. In short, North Carolina gets one point out of five, with one point off for putting its name on the assignment.

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We deserve a flag that encapsulates all of these landmarks, one that lets us know where we’ve come from as a state and that we can get there ourselves. The state motto of North Carolina is “esse quam videri,” or “to be rather than to seem.” What we need is a flag that will be a symbol for our state rather than to seem like a symbol for our state.