Alabama, Alaska, Arizona: No changes. Arkansas: Slight edits, the diamond is inverted for better contrast, and there are now only 5 stars with 25 total points representing the fact that Arkansas is the 25th state. California: No changes. Colorado: The tips of the C now match up with the white line. Connecticut: The five stripes represent Connecticut as the fifth state. The brown is for the nutmeg state, and the shield is taken from the current flag, as are the grapes. There’s 13 for the original 13 colonies (Connecticut was one of them), and the leaf is a 5 pointed star (since again, Connecticut is the 5th state.) Delaware: Colonial blue and buff are the state colors of Delaware, the Nordic cross is a reference to New Sweden, the diamond is taken from the current flag (and also its name of “The Diamond State”) and the hen is the state bird as well as the “emblem or mascot of several institutions in the state, among them the sports teams of the University of Delaware.” Florida: The orange is the state fruit, the blue represents Florida having one of the longest coastline among US states, and the Cross of Burgundy represents its past as a Spanish colony. The sun in the middle is based on its nickname of “The Sunshine State”, and it has nine triangles to represent Florida as the 27th state. Georgia: I added a fourth stripe, as Georgia is the fourth state. The arch is simplified and the stars are removed. Hawaii: No changes. Idaho: The star garnet is the state gemstone, representing Idaho as “the gem state”. The white wavy line represents the Snake River. Illinois: The flag features a red Piasa bird, a creature from American mythology of the city of Alton. The color scheme is based on Chicago, and the 21 stripes represent Illinois being the 21st state. Indiana: Removed the text. Iowa: No changes. Kansas: The sunflower and blue background are taken from the oldest flag of Kansas. The added yellow triangles make a “K” shape. Based on Witchita's flag. Kentucky: Green for the “Bluegrass state”, horseshoe for the state animal, and the goldenrods which are taken from the current flag. Louisiana: For this one, I used a basic tricolor while keeping the original blue color. The middle stripe is white, and inside is the pelican, but combined with the fleur de lis. The three blood drops symbolize Union, Justice and Confidence. Maine: This redesign is based on the first flag of Maine, but with a more simplified tree. To be more specific, it’s the tree from Massachusetts' naval ensign, as a sort of reference to how Maine and Massachusetts were once connected. Maryland: No changes. Massachusetts: Six red and white stripes representing Massachusetts being the sixth state. A white canton with a pine tree, taken from Massachusetts' naval ensign. Michigan: Two green areas for the two peninsulas and two blue areas for the Great Lakes. Minnesota, Mississippi: No changes. Missouri: Keep the format, but simplify the seal. I cropped out the part with the crescent and the bear and placed that over the circle. I think Missouri's flag is nice, so I didn’t really wanna change much of it. Montana: The blue represents the “Big Sky Country”, the the mountains create an “M” for Montana, and the added gold and silver represents its motto, “oro y plata”. Nebraska: The green and yellow represent "the Cornhusker state", the pall shape is for the Platte River, and the wheel represents the transcontinental railroad. Nevada: This flag keeps the overall format of the current Nevada flag, but removes the “NEVADA” text and uses the blackish background from the previous Nevada flag. Since “Nevada“ comes from “snowed” in Spanish, I added a silver stripe below the sagebrushes, to represent Nevada as the silver state, and also to give a bit of a “snowy” vibe. New Hampshire: Based on the flag of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, I cropped out the part with the triangles and placed that on a white background. New Jersey: The garden plows represent the nickname of the garden state, and are taken from the coat of arms. Yellow and blue are the state colors. New Mexico: No changes. New York: The Union Jack in the colors of The Netherlands old flag. In the middle is the White Rose of York, the flower that gives this state its name. The purple represents the Iroquois confederacy.
North Carolina: Format is the same as the current flag, but the colors were shifted around to make it look less like Texas. THE star has been replaced with the state flower, the dogwood. Hidden within it is a twelve pointed star, since NC is the 12th state. North Dakota: This flag is based on North Dakota's coat of arms, but flipped so that the fluer de lis isn’t obstructed when the flag isn’t waving. Ohio: No changes. Oklahoma: Removed the text. Oregon: This flag keeps the “front and back” motif. The blue and yellow are taken from the current flag. On the front is a wheel, for the Oregon Trail. The back is still a beaver. Pennsylvania: Blue, yellow and green tricolor with three ever so famous Keystones in the center, meant to be a reference to William Penn's coat of arms. Rhode Island: The current flag is fine. All I did was remove “hope” (the anchor is already a symbol for that), add a border around it and change the yellow to blue so it’s slightly easier to see. South Carolina: No changes. South Dakota: Removed the words. The seal is replaced with a medicine wheel to represent the state's large Native American heritage. Tennessee, Texas, Utah: No changes. Vermont: Based on the flag of the Vermont republic. 14 Stars and Stripes to represent Vermont as the fourteenth state. Virginia: The red cross of St. George is a callback to the coat of arms of colonial Virginia, with broken chains and spears from the current seal. The blue is form the current state flag. Washington: Removed the words and replaced George's portrait with two salmons, which are a symbol across indigenous people (including the Puyallup Indian tribe as a nod to the heritage of First Nations people in Washington). West Virginia: The white background with a blue border is taken from the current flag. The axe and pickaxe represent the agriculture and coal mining industries (as well as calling back to the current flag and seal). Wisconsin: Yellow represents cheese, white represents milk, (America’s dairy land), black represents badgers (the state animal, the white behind also mimics the stripe of a badger), and the blue represents lakes. The stripe is also a “greater than” shape to symbolize the state motto of “forward.” Wyoming: Removed the seal.
