Citations & Trivia
As you might imagine, there is a lot of potential flag history to cover for each of the states. This is an ongoing project that we're doing mostly for the fun of following up on interesting and intriguing stories. 🤓 If you don't see your state or have a fun story to share about your state's flag, let us know!
We want you to explore the links as quickly as possible, but if you're interested in our research approach, read about our methodologies section.
Extra State Flag Info and Trivia
Midwest
West
Icon Legend
- 🙋 — contains extra juicy trivia and facts.
- ⭐ — recently updated (within the past few weeks).
- 🚧 — undergoing updates, so the info may be dodgy, but we wanted to share something!
Methodology
Most of the details you see on the t-shirt cards were discovered through high-level and quick Internet searches. Research is hard and we're trying to sell t-shirts too. 📚👕
We did try to put some dilligence into verifying any particularly wild claims, and at the very least, we made sure there was at least an additional reference somewhere to help validate the claim. Still, this doesn't mean the evidence is rock solid (because we all know that trust and the Internet are frenemies at best the best of times!).
If you don't see your state listed, you can assume that the facts we've presented came from some combination of Wikipeida and usually a state government (which we preferred above all others) or a historical society source. Those sources can still be in doubt as well, so be warned. We certainly would like be as accurate as possible, but our primary concern is to sell t-shirts, not run down every historical rabbit hole we find 🐰🕳️ (so please buy one if this site has been enjoyable or useful in anyway to you!)
The icons indicate the type of information you'll find. See the legend above.