Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Louisiana


Louisiana's current flag is crazy. The design is bad enough, but just recently there was a law that said that three drops of blood had to be added to the flag on the pelican's breast for the flag to be official. This design I came up with took me about four months to come up with.

The tricolour design represents three things: First, it represents the motto of Louisiana, "Union, Justice, and Confidence". The blue represents Union, the white represents Justice, and the red represents Confidence. Second, the tricolour represents France, which originally had the state of Louisiana before the United States bought it. And third, the red, white, and blue represents the United States. The five pointed star represents the United States, and the fleur-de-lis represents France. The green and yellow resepent Louisiana's marshes and swamps.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a variant of the Acadian flag which is illustrated at: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ca-acad.html

FlagFreak said...

What? There is a star and a fleur-de-lis, not a star in the blue corner. Where'd u get that idea?

Anonymous said...

A note about the pelican's blood. In heraldry, this is called "a pelican in her piety". Apparently there is a medieval myth about the pelican hen sacrificing herself for her chicks by feeding them with her own blood. The parallel with Christ should be obvious, which is why it's a common heraldic emblem. How it got to Louisiana is another story, which I don't know.

FlagFreak said...

I see. Good symbol, but not for a flag.