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BREAKING FLAG NEWS: Minnesota Getting a New Flag!
BREAKING FLAG NEWS: Minnesota Getting a New Flag!
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Breaking flag news.
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Breaking flag news!
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Minnesota is redesigning her flag.
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The current colors provocatively called,
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quote, “worst in the union,”
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by some YouTuber,
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Minnesota asked for submissions,
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received thousands,
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out of which selected six,
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then thinned to three.
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One of which,
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to be picked as new before end of the year.
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Which of the three will it be?
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Doubtless many Minnesotans
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[and YouTubers]
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will want to weigh in,
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and I will,
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because breaking flag news is rare and exciting.
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So exciting that this is my SECOND
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Minnesota flag redesign video.
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The first with my first impressions of the
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six semifinalists
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I gave semiserious names.
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I'm sticking with for cinematic continuity.
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But enough with the intro.
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Onto the top trio,
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with designs, as described by their documents,
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for you to decide upon.
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First up, Star Rise.
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So Minnesota is the North Star state.
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Thanks to the angle inlet that
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US/Canadian map making muddied up
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that inched Minnesota out over the 49th parallel,
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putting her as America's northernmost contiguous state.
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Thus Star Rise centers the North Star
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here, with eight points,
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to distinguish it from the standard state stars.
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The blue is the sky that gives colors to
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Minnesota's 10,000 lakes,
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with a rolling green landscape
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for the forests and farms,
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and a bit of snow up top because,
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it's cold up top.
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That's Star Rise.
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Onto Old Wavy.
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Here again is a North Star,
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this time distinct as four points in yellow.
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And on the upper fly is described as,
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wisps of snow, clouds, and aurora,
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that are reflected along
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the bottom half as the head of the Mississippi River.
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You might see a loon,
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the common loon is the state bird,
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you might not, but it's there.
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And that's Old Wavy.
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Last up Polaris Tricolor.
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Starting with a hoist design in the
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simplified shape of Minnesota herself.
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An eight pointed star is centered
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inside with more of a twinkle look.
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And from that feature,
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tricolors extend for the lake's land and snow.
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These are the final three.
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And if you haven't ranked them yourself already,
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pause here to give it a ponder 'cause I've got thoughts,
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I'm about to share in 3...2...1.
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All right.
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Old Wavy.
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Of the top three.
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It's easily the awfulest.
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In my first impressions video,
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did not like this design,
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and given time to reflect upon it has
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but changed my position to
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do not like, harder.
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And learning the details of the design didn't help either.
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Snow, clouds, and the aurora borealis
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are very different things and
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this squiggle looks like none of them.
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It's reflection I can see as a river
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if I try and it may be inspired by the loon.
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But to me, it looks like a duck.
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And a duck-side-down-duck.
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In fact, I think this design really represents
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the potential danger in flag redesigns.
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Maybe it can serve as warning to any
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states who might want to go next.
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Because when you ask for designs of a state,
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you'll get designs that
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stick all the stuff of the state on the flag,
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like the loon and
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the Mississippi and
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the, ah, aurora?
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But the goal of a flag is not to use pre-existing symbols,
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but to become a symbol
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of its city, or state, or state state.
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And all that stuff?
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Well, there's a perfect place for it in,
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Your Seal.
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Which we don't have time to get into.
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But Minnesota also just redesigned hers into
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a total banger!
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Best seal in the Union?
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Uhh, I don't actually know
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because I haven't gone through all of them.
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Oh, they're so interesting.
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No, Grey.
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Don't get distracted.
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There's no time.
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You have yet to give your hottest of takes,
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which, before I say the sentence that will doubtless
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drive many mad.
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This video had to be written,
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recorded,
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edited,
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animated
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and edited again,
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all in a day.
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So I did.
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And reserve the right to retract.
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But, I actually think I might prefer
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Minnesota's original flag over Old Wavy.
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[ugh] I know.
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It's terrible.
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Literally worst in the union,
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but there's kind of an achievement in that.
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At least it's outstanding.
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Aren't the real worst things those in the middle of bad,
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where there isn't even any fun to be had
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in the art of entertaining complaining.
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That's Old Wavy.
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Bad but middle mediocre,
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which is worse than being the worst.
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Ah, yeah. So anyway, in case you couldn't tell,
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I really don't like this design,
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and its alternative options are even uglier.
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So let's just move on to,
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Star Rise.
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Which is...fine?
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Uh, I don't have a lot to say about this one
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because it's better,
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but maybe not amazing.
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If Old Wavy is mediocre bad,
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then this one is mediocre good.
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Now, that's a bit too harsh.
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Really my main complaint is that it's so good at evoking
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the idea of a landscape that it looks kind of
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odd when hung vertical.
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North Star to side star?
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There are alternative options that move the star but still.
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But I'd rate any of these as a legit improvement over the original flag
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and would probably put Minnesota somewhere in the region of
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Miss Mississippi's recent redesign.
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Yeah, I don't know?
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But better for sure.
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Now on to,
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Polaris Tricolor.
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Which, come on girl, contest over, right?
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It's awesome.
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That Minnesota K is so kool,
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subtly representing the Great State.
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It's a unique design element,
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not just among state flags but world flags.
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I kind of can't believe no tricolor hoist
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has inverted a triangle before because
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it looks so truly traditional.
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Something that could have been designed
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at any time in the long past.
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Thus basically guaranteeing it'll look great into the long future,
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unlike say Old Wavy,
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which despite my nickname,
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looks painfully modern,
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and is destined to be dated in under a decade.
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Polaris Tricolor looks like a flag.
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Especially when you rotate it with
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North Star, top star,
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and still stands out even without wind.
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Now, the only thing I'm afraid of for perfect Polaris is
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there are a bunch of variants,
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all of which detract
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from the original design.
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Look, I get the desire to tinker at the last second.
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When this first caught my eye,
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I did wonder about the slightly muted colors
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and had second thoughts
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about the white stripe up top.
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But unlike Old Wavy,
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my love, for this design has only grown with time.
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White stripe on top makes it distinct
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from some of the most well known tricolors.
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And the slightly muted colors convey a
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northern kind of cold coziness and
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look better together than brightening the blue.
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I mean, look, the design is so strong,
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it would survive small changes,
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but they'd hurt my heart a bit.
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Thus, the original Tricolor Polaris design,
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as the artist intended,
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gets my unambiguous approval
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and I hope to soon see it flying over the
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Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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But, I'm not a Minnesotan.
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It's not my opinion that matters.
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I'm just here because I can't stop myself from
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being on the edge of my seat to see what
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Minnesota selects for herself.
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Please pick Polaris Tricolor though.
