Texas took the United States icons, patterns, and colors, simplified them as a message, and is thus visually iconic. And damnit, Chile, you may have had a remarkably similar design a couple decades before Texas did it, but.. this is Texas.

My favorite flag in the world is Libya's. It's green. It's just green (Edit: or at least it used to be, a few years ago). For "green week", in Kindergarten, my teacher refused to write "the flag of Libya" on the chalkboard, amongst "frogs", "grass", and "money". She didn't believe me. It was a bad day for me.

And that's how I'd like to start my point. All flags with small-scale details, be it pictoral illustrations or micro-font have no place as a visual symbol. Arizona and Colorado, I can live with. I know their likenesses, because they're easy to associate with, due in part to their simplicity. Florida's ridiculous detail takes the cake, and Delaware's small seafoam-green text in the front and center may be the second worst, but it's hard to rank against Kansas's riverboat, which might fool the brain into thinking it's a hole in the flag's canvas.

These things should be flying high in the breeze, not in 1080p on a static display, right?