Sad that Puerto Rico might become a state before DC
Why does DC need to become a state?
So that they can have the same congressional representation as the rest of the US.
13 Stripes and 51 Stars
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#12No solution for 87?
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#13Sad that Puerto Rico might become a state before DC
I think the bigger problem is that we let people make permanent residence in area that was designed not to be part of a state. Perhaps they could shrink the DC area down and give the residential land back to the appropriate states.
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#14Different, but I really like the proposed circular formation for 51 stars. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US_... Of course if we adopted it, some right-wingers would say it means were going commie, or something like it.
The blue area seems to be a little small. Why do you say "Of course if we adopted it, some right-wingers would say it means were going commie, or something like it."? I have seen a lot of original 13-star circular flags in the possession of people that would self-describe as being on the right.
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#15uhm "The United States Army Institute of Heraldry has plans for flags with up to 56 stars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Institute_of... http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/
Six more? Puerto Rico, DC, British Columbia, Baja California, Cuba, and...?
It's interesting to see all the areas worldwide that have, at one time or another and with varying degrees of seriousness, been proposed as new US states. See:
Re: 13 Stripes and 51 Stars
#16Different, but I really like the proposed circular formation for 51 stars. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US_... Of course if we adopted it, some right-wingers would say it means were going commie, or something like it.
I love it - esp. the 5-point star that forms when you look at it for several seconds.
For those interested: it comes from this article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States
which has a timeline of all past flags, too.
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#17So, what did we do when we had 29 states?
Answer Here: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagfact.html Neither one are patterns he put into the algorithm.
That site is s.l.o.w. for me. Wikipedia has the same chart (without the extra trivia, though) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States
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#18Re: 13 Stripes and 51 Stars
#19uhm "The United States Army Institute of Heraldry has plans for flags with up to 56 stars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Institute_of... http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/
Six more? Puerto Rico, DC, British Columbia, Baja California, Cuba, and...? It's interesting to see all the areas worldwide that have, at one time or another and with varying degrees of seriousness, been proposed as new US states. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state
Britain?
Re: 13 Stripes and 51 Stars
#20Different, but I really like the proposed circular formation for 51 stars. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/US_... Of course if we adopted it, some right-wingers would say it means were going commie, or something like it.
After reading the article I was going to suggest the same thing. I think the radial symmetry is much more pleasing and I like the nod to the original 13 star flag.