A Flag for North Dakota

Copyleft C008-2015 j5mc.org.  CC-BY-SANorth Dakota’s flag got some rather unsightly changes a few years back.  The long and short of it was the switch to unheraldric blue-on-red lettering and mandatory fringing.  To this day, you can’t find a correctly proportioned 33:26 copy of the flag on store shelves, but to be honest, North Dakota’s flag hardly stands out among the 56 territories and hardly says anything besides “Hey, we’re American too!”

In the 1950s, the North Dakota National Guard stated about as plainly as possible that the North Dakota flag was properly an army unit banner.  They made a Coat of Arms of North Dakota, which they hoped would form the basis for a new state flag, but that didn’t go according to plan right away.

That doesn’t mean that it was a bad idea, though.  My design inherits the core symbolism of the Coat of Arms, on a Canadian pale, adding a nod to North Dakota’s friends and neighbours.  It also looks like a Big N, which is sure to clear up any ambiguity.  The change to green or yellow alone will pop out from the bizarre uniformity of blue state flags.

Blazon:
Vert on a Canadian pale or a bend of the first charged with three mullets of the second