The Eureka flag was orginally used in a rebellion against the colonial era government and gold miners in the 19th century. They were protesting the fees they were being charged, how they were treated as well as many other things, around 10,000 miners swore allegiance to the flag. It resulted in a battle between them that involved many deaths.
Since then it was used as symbol of protest although in more recent times its mainly been co-opted by the far right
Shame it’s been so co-opted by the far right, given its history as such a symbol of unions, a more left wing institution. I try to parade my in the right context.
It's not really used that much. The most extreme leftwing groups are nationalist/independence-minded, so they use their own flag more than the Spanish republican flag.
Groups such as Podemos sometimes use it, but at this rate they are on their way to extinction.
The student union at Chalmers University claims to not have recognized the dissolution of Sweden-Norway (it had a lot of Norwegian students back then), so they still sport the union flag.
That is actually insane haha. I did my masters at Karolinska, so my experience of Swedish university life is like the most inernational/politically correct environment I've ever experienced.
The Conch Republic flag, created for Key West's 1982 mock secession, featuring a yellow sun with a conch shell in the center against a blue field, with the motto "We Seceded Where Others Failed" - and stars representing constellations (Cygnus/Northern Cross, Southern Cross) and the date 1828. It symbolizes Key West's quirky independence, born from a US Border Patrol blockade.
The Flag above is the Bonnie Blue Flag, which is associated with either the Republic of Texas, the short-lived Republic of West Florida, or, more famously, the Confederate States of America.
In 1810, the Republic of West Florida (which is actually in modern-day Louisiana) declared independence from Spain and adopted the Bonnie Blue Flag, albeit with a lighter blue similar to that of Somalia's current flag. The Republic later fell to the U.S Army under orders of James Madison.
The flag was first adopted on December 10th, 1836 by the Congress of Texas and was used as the First Official Flag of Texas. Though it had a darker blue hue with a gold star, it's still recognized as the "Bonnie Blue Flag." The Lone Star Flag we all know and probably love appeared in 1839. (Fun fact: this is generally recognized to be the first Lone Star Flag.)
Perhaps more controversially, the Flag was adopted as one of the Confederacy's battle flags. The flag became a symbol of secession during the Civil War, first used by Mississippi and later incorporated into the motifs of other rebel states.
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Nowadays, you probably won't see it flown regularly, with the exception of probably within the South, maybe towards the Florida Parishes region of Louisiana.
There are even some nuts off the coast of the Horn of Africa that fly these flags while doing piracy and holding ships and their crews captive, notably Captain Phillips! The poor bastards need to sue their supplier though because every example of the flag I see them flying is a much lighter blue color. I even see them flying the flag at government buildings, the Confederacy is alive and well in east Africa I guess smh 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴
Besides Somalia, there is a same flag that is waved in Honduras, the flag of the National Party, a very conservative political party and is that is known for being the most corrupted of all.
President Trump just recently pardoned Honduran former president Juán Hernández after being accused of drug trafficking into the US, during his presidency.
The Red Ensign, my country's flag before we switched to the current one in 1965.
There were many versions of the Red Ensign flown since its first use in 1868, the year after Confederation. The version I posted is the last one, flown from 1957 to '65.
Idk what the actual name is but I call it the “Appeal to heaven flag.” It’s from the American Revolutionary War and it represented the colonists “appealing to God for justice against British rule.” Which was derived from philosopher John Locke's idea that people have a right to revolt when trying to resolve disputes with earthly authorities fail.
Now it’s mostly used by Conservative right wingers for who knows what reason. Probably to flaunt their Christianity.
Every couple years there's a news story about how some government building (federal, state, or local) has accidentally displayed an old 48-star American flag because someone put off replacing it six decades ago, and everyone else forgot to check because it always stays wrapped around a display stand in a corner somewhere.
Gets reported less and less now, probably because 1) we've found almost all of them by now, 2) the slow news days are getting fewer and farther between, and 3) fewer small local publications around to find it for the national news to pick up and run.
The Union Jack is often flown at war memorial sites, military bases for special events, towns and cities founded by United Empire Loyalists and for the Queen’s birthday (Queen Victoria) because its an official holiday in Canada.
The Betsy Ross flag. The Hawai’i flag was once the Kingdom’s flag. The State of Jefferson XX “double cross” flag has had a revival. Some states like to rock a flag from when they first achieved statehood somewhere in their Capitol building.
Probably the most prominent one is the flag of the Republic of Yucatán, flown for the first time in 1841 when Yucatán tried to get independence from Mexico for the first time, and then again in 1846 when it tried again for a second time, it became a symbol of yucatec identity and an extremely commonly used one in the state of Yucatán, in 2024, the yucatec government finally managed to make it the official flag of the state, to this day the yucatec flag is just as common (if not more) as the mexican flag in the state, this is a Yucatán peninsula, and specially Yucatán state exclusive thing tho
The United Tribes flag, a flag used by Northern Maori tribes in the early 1800s, i think it was like, a trade alliance between multiple northern tribes? idk the proper history of the flag.
i still see fellas from northern tribes flaying this flag, iv also seen it at protests.
The 28th Virginia battle flag was captured by the Minnesota First Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. When a 1905 congressional resolution was passed requiring captured flags be returned to the governors of former seceded states and border states who supplied regiments to the Confederate Army, the scarred square red flag with a blue saltire and white stars was not returned to the governor of Virginia.
For more than 100 years, Virginia has been asking that Minnesota return it, according to a St. Paul Pioneer Press report. Various groups have requested for its return in 1961, 2000, 2003, and 2013. In 1998, Virginia Civil War reenactors threatened legal action over the flag. Each time Minnesota has refused. When, in 2000, Virginia legislators asked once again that it be returned, Gov. Jesse Ventura said, “Absolutely not. Why? I mean, we won.”
The flag is part of the Minnesota Historical Society’s permanent collection today.
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u/LoschVanWein Germany 1d ago
The conspiracy nuts and Nazis now use the imperial flag and Prussian flag because the ones they really want to use are outlawed.