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Article: LOWERING THE FLAG OF WISCONSIN.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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Byline: Staff/news services
Wisconsin's blue banner flies proudly over the Capitol, but experts have declared it one of the 10 worst-designed flags in North America and the U.S. territories.
Specifically, No. 65 out of 72.
A new survey by the North American Vexillological Association, a group of more than 400 flag enthusiasts dedicated to the study of flag design, ranked Georgia's flag the worst and New Mexico's the best.
Flag experts say the Georgia banner is a disaster that violates all the basic principles of flag design -- its centerpiece state seal is generic, the words and tiny flags make it cluttered and hard to decipher from a ...
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