FLORIDA - u/high_quality_posts
This design proposal reimagines Florida’s current flag while preserving its spirit, uniting the state’s Indigenous, Spanish, and American heritages with its geography, climate, and culture of liberty. The orange chevron represents Florida’s peninsular identity and can also be read as an abstract chickee, acknowledging the Seminole people’s long inhabitation of the peninsula. The halved burgundy saltire, inspired by the Cross of Burgundy, nods to Spanish colonial history while intentionally breaking from it; its division can acknowledge the brutal reality of this colonialism on Florida’s Indigenous population, their resistance, and Florida’s eventual breaking-away from Spain to join the United States. Its red color honors the sacrifice, conflict, and endurance that shaped Florida. The orange blossom, placed on orange, celebrates the state flower and fruit, agricultural heritage, biodiversity, and the origin of the name Florida—from florido, meaning “flowery place.” The red, white, and orange palette evokes sunsets, warmth, beaches, and the “Sunshine State” identity, while the white fly represents liberty, peace, and Florida’s long-standing “live and let live” independence.
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