I recently received email from New Minnesota Flag, a group dedicated to replacing the state's flag.  I couldn't agree with them more.  Nearly half of U.S. state flags are "seals on a blue background," barely distinguishable from each other.

The state takes its name from the Minnesota River.  The name "Minnesota" means sky-tinted or slightly cloudy (sota) water (minne) in the Dakota language.  This morning I was reading a poem that referred to something reflecting on water and this flag proposal popped into my head.  Water is central to Minnesota's identity, and the design is meant to simultaneously evoke the sky reflecting on water, cloudy water, flowing water, and, more generally, progress.

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