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Screen Shot 2019-11-16 at 9.04.24 PM.png|Another badger themed flag for Wisconsin, with a hat tip to the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German/Lutheran origins of so many Wisconsinites. (Posted by Ken Morton)
  
Screen Shot 2019-11-16 at 9.04.24 PM.png|Another badger themed flag for Wisconsin, with a hat tip to the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German/Lutheran origins of so many Wisconsinites. (Posted by Ken Morton)
 
Wisconson 4.png|This design for a Wisconsin flag is my combination of a design by Sam McKittrick and a design posted on Alan Hardy's Facebook blog, U.S. State Flags - Current, Historical and Proposed, under the name of "https://imgur.com/a/wHF7NEs". (Posted by Ken Morton)
  
Wisconson 4.png|This design for a Wisconsin flag is my combination of a design by Sam McKittrick and a design posted on Alan Hardy's Facebook blog, U.S. State Flags - Current, Historical and Proposed, under the name of "https://imgur.com/a/wHF7NEs". (Posted by Ken Morton)
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Proposal flag Wisconsin.png|Proposal for a flag for Wisconsin. All colors taken from the Seal of Wisconsin.
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Proposal flag Wisconsin.svg|Proposal for a flag for Wisconsin. All colors taken from the Seal of Wisconsin.
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Proposal flag Wisconsin 1.png|Proposal for a flag for Wisconsin. All colors taken from the State Seal.
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Proposal flag Wisconsin 1.svg|Proposal for a flag for Wisconsin. All colors taken from the State Seal.
 
wisconsin final results b.png|Results round-up of the mini unofficial contest with 495 designs studied. A dead heat. All top three are worthy.
  
wisconsin final results b.png|Results round-up of the mini unofficial contest with 495 designs studied. A dead heat. All top three are worthy.
 
000000 80 spec.png|Winner by just one vote. Nov2019.
  
000000 80 spec.png|Winner by just one vote. Nov2019.

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The flag of the state of Wisconsin is a blue flag charged with the state coat of arms. Originally designed in 1863 when regiments from Wisconsin wanted a flag for battlefield use, it wasn't until 1913 that state statutes specified the design of the state flag.

In an attempt to distinguish it from the many other blue U.S. state flags, Wisconsin's flag was modified in 1979 to add "Wisconsin" and "1848", the year Wisconsin was admitted to the Union. (Including words on flags is generally considered bad vexillogical form because words are hard to read on a flag that is flapping in the wind, is limp, or when the viewer is oriented towards the flag such that the words appear backwards. The solution to backwards text, a double sided flag, more than doubles production costs.)

In 2001, a survey conducted by the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) ranked Wisconsin's flag among the bottom ten flags in design quality out of the 72 Canadian provincial, U.S. state and U.S. territory flags, placing it 65th out of the 72. The NAVA stated that about half of U.S. states used blue fields making them difficult to distinguish and the survey ranked flags with words and complex seals the lowest. The NAVA survey "favored strong, simple, distinctive flags" and ranked "seal-on-a-bedsheet" type flags the lowest.

Proposals for a New Flag of Wisconsin

Shown below are designs that have been proposed for a new flag of Wisconsin.

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