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The flag of Louisiana consists of a heraldic charge called a "pelican in her piety," representing a mother pelican wounding her breast to feed her young from the blood. This symbol, emblematic of Christian charity, is also found on the state seal. On the flag it is depicted above a ribbon with the state motto: "Union, Justice, and Confidence". The current flag was adopted in 2006, revising the original pelican design of 1912.

During the 19th century it was traditional in Louisiana flags and the state seal for the "pelican in her piety" to have three drops of blood on her chest. However, in later years the tradition (on both the state flag and seal) had been haphazardly followed, which was noticed by an eighth-grader at Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma who brought this to the attention of his state legislator. The issue was resolved in April 2006, when the Louisiana State Legislature passed a bill (House Bill 833/Act 92) which requires three drops of blood to be depicted on the pelican used in both the state's flag and seal. The new state flag, featuring a new design, was recently unveiled during swearing-in ceremonies of new state officials.

Historical Flags

Proposals for a New Flag of Louisiana

Shown below are various flag designs that have been proposed for Louisiana.

Common symbolism

Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis is a very common heraldic symbol, but it is most well-known as a symbol of France, especially the Kingdom of France before the transition to a republic. It appears in many flags and other symbols in North America to represent French heritage; for example, the provincial flag of Quebec and the flags of the cities of St. Louis, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Louisiana was part of the French colony of the same name, which spread over a much larger part of North America and was sold to the US in 1803. The state remains one of few that have French as second most spoken language, together with three New England states, and is home to the francophone region of Acadiana.

Besides the fleur-de-lis, the current flag of France (a vertical triband of blue, white and red) is also sometimes used or referred to in designs.

Spanish flags

Flag of Cross of Burgundy — Cross of Burgundy

Besides France, greater Louisiana has been a territory of Spain for a few decades. Spain had ruled in parts of the current area of Louisiana previously. Several designs symbolize Louisiana having been a colony of both, representing Spain by the Cross of Burgundy (then used by Spain as its military flag), the castle and lion of Castile and León, or the red and yellow from the current flag of Spain.

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 ==Historical Flags==
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 Cross of Burgundy-Gules, Link and Crowned.svg|Flag of the King and Armed Forces of Spanish Empire, used in the Florida Parishes and Spanish Louisiana.
 px-Louisiana Secession Flag.svg.png|Flag of Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Convention
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 Flag of Louisiana 1912.svg.png|Flag used from 1912 to 2006
 px-Flag of Louisiana 2006.svg.png|Interim flag used from 2006 to 2010
+to 3 ratio.png|More as per two photos of real flags.
 </gallery>
 ==Proposals for a New Flag of Louisiana==
 Shown below are various flag designs that have been proposed for Louisiana.
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 Proposed Louisiana Flag.png|LA Flag Proposal "Marmocet"
 Proposed LA Flag thefrek.png|LA Flag Proposal "thefrek"
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 LA Flag Proposal Usacelt.PNG|LA Flag Proposal "Usacelt"
 Flag of Louisiana 2.png|LA Flag Proposal by Kermitdefrog
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 1 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 1 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 6 Aug 2014
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 2 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 2 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 6 Aug 2014
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 3 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 3 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 Aug 2014
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 4 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 4 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 5 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 5 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014
-Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 6 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 6 AUG 2014.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 6 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow  6 AUG 2014
 Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 7 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 8 AUG 2014 at 0952hrs cst.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No.7 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 8 AUG 2014
 Louisiana State Flag Proposal No 8 - 18 Star Medallion Pattern Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 8 AUG 2014 1048hrs cst.jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 8 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 8 AUG 2014
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 LA Flag Proposal Leonardo Piccioni-2.png|LA Flag Proposal "Leonardo Piccioni-2"
 LA Flag Proposal BigRed618.png|LA Flag Proposal "BigRed618"
-Flag Hans US-LA1.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|LA|p=usc|d=Dec 2013|r=w}}
+US-LA flag proposal Hans 1.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|p=usc|d=Dec 2013|n=1}}
+US-LA flag proposal Hans 2.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|p=usc|d=Mar 2015|n=2}}
+US-LA flag proposal Hans 3.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|p=usc|d=Mar 2015|n=3}}
+US-LA flag proposal Hans 4.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|p=usc|d=Oct 2015|n=4}}
+US-LA flag proposal Hans 5.png|{{User:HansLN/GE|p=usc|d=Nov 2015|n=5}}
+Louisiana.png|Louisiana State Flag Symplistic Proposal. In 2006 Louisiana’s state legislature passed a bill requiring any depiction of the mother pelican in the state’s flag or seal be accompanied by a depiction of the three drops of blood with which she feeds her young. In my design the white bar on the left represents the mother pelican. The three stars are three drops of blood. The white triangle on the right is the young pelican’s beak. By Ed Mitchell. 2013.
+Louisiana1.png|Louisiana State Flag Proposal by NATHANIEL TANG on 13 JUNE 2015 at 05:40 UTC . Flag based on old New France regimental flags of the Royal French Army, defaced with arms with the pelican in her piety heraldic charge
+louisiana2.png|Louisiana State Flag Proposal by NATHANIEL TANG on 13 JUNE 2015 at 14:40 UTC . The French Tri-couleur, defaced with arms with the pelican in her piety heraldic charge
+louisiana3.png|Louisiana State Flag Proposal by NATHANIEL TANG on 13 JUNE 2015 at 14:40 UTC . The French Tri-couleur, defaced with four fleur-de-lis representing the pelican in her piety
+louisiana5.png|Louisiana State Flag Proposal by NATHANIEL TANG on 15 JUNE 2015 at 12:00 UTC .
+Louisiana State Flag Proposal  No. 12 Designed By Stephen Richard Barlow 25 JUL 2015 at 0904 HRS CST..jpg|Louisiana State Flag Proposal No. 12 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 25 JUL 2015 at 0904 HRS CST.
+File:US-LA flag proposal Achaley.jpg|Louisiana flag proposal by Achaley.
+Louisiana Iserlohn.png|LA Flag Proposal by FederalRepublic/Iserlohn
+Louisiana5theye.png|LA flag proposal by 5thEye
+LouisianaFlagUCA.png|Louisiana Flag Proposal by TechMountenDew
+Louisiana_Flag_Zeek1.png|Louisiana Flag by ZeekLTK
+LouisianaFdL.png|Large FdL stands for the Peli and the 3 smaller for the chicks, 3 drops of blood and the mouth of the Mississippi River as wavey. Design by Rotten Ali.
+Lousiana - Fleur de lys.jpeg|Louisiana state flag proposed by Ken Morton. Gold Fleur-de-Lys on a blue field.
+Louisiana Proposal by Moraisdethiago.png|Proposal by [[User:SimplisticFlags|SimplisticFlags]]. July 2018. ([[User:SimplisticFlags/Flag Proposals/American States#Louisiana|details]])
+Louisiana Flag Proposal.png|Louisiana Flag Proposal by ted.peterson22. September 2018.
+LA PNG.png|Update to number of stripes in Marmocet's design. The basic design of the flag is a very loose interpretation of the first official flag of the state dating to 1861. The red and gold represent Louisiana’s Spanish era while red, white, and fleur de lis represent the French era. The six gold stripes represent the six parishes of the state, and the five red bars the five governments in the state’s history: Spain, France, the UK, the CSA, and the USA. The blue canton with white fleur de lis abstractly represents the historic pelican flag of the state, whith the three leaves representing the words of the state’s motto: Union, Justice, Confidence. Posted by Preston Knapp [https://vexillology.fandom.com/wiki/User:Preston_Knapp]
+Louisiana New Flag.png|LA Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge"
+Proposal Flag of Louisiana drop the banner.svg|Proposal "drop the banner" for a flag for Louisiana, reusing the image of the pelican from the existing flag, but doing away with the banner and the motto. By [[User:Qaz_Janssen|Qaz]] Dec 2019 ([[User:Qaz Janssen/Proposals/Subnational/US-CTR#Louisiana|details]])
+Louisianna.png|Part of series of designs for state flags, all in blue and white. (Posted by Ken Morton)
+B9424B53-A21A-422A-BA67-2E848678D640.jpeg|Proposed flag redesign for Louisiana, iconizing the pelican w/ chicks into a fleur de lis|link=http://fixyourdamnflag.us/
+Jhq6n31rh6w21.png|Originally posted on reddit by u/WheeliumThe2nd
 </gallery>
+== Common symbolism ==
+=== Fleur-de-lis ===
+[[File:Fleur de lys (or).svg|thumb|right|Gold fleur-de-lis]]
+The {{w|fleur-de-lis}} is a very common heraldic symbol, but it is most well-known as a symbol of France, especially the {{w|Kingdom of France}} before the transition to a republic. It appears in many flags and other symbols in North America to represent French heritage; for example, the provincial flag of [[Quebec]] and the flags of the cities of {{w|Flag of St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri}} and {{w|Flag of New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana}}.
+Louisiana was part of the {{w|Louisiana (New France)|French colony of the same name}}, which spread over a much larger part of North America and {{w|Louisiana Purchase|was sold to the US}} in 1803. The state remains {{w|Languages of the United States#Status of other languages|one of few}} that have French as second most spoken language, together with three New England states, and is home to the francophone region of {{w|Acadiana}}.
+Besides the fleur-de-lis, the current {{w|flag of France}} (a vertical triband of blue, white and red) is also sometimes used or referred to in designs.
+=== Spanish flags ===
+[[File:Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg.png|thumb|right|Cross of Burgundy]]
+Besides France, greater Louisiana has been {{w|Louisiana (New Spain)|a territory of Spain}} for a few decades. Spain had ruled in parts of the current area of Louisiana previously. Several designs symbolize Louisiana having been a colony of both, representing Spain by the {{w|Cross of Burgundy}} (then used by Spain as its military flag), the castle and lion of {{w|Crown of Castile|Castile and León}}, or the red and yellow from the current {{w|flag of Spain}}.
+{{United States}}
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+[[Category:Symbolism]]