nice!

There is nothing, per se, wrong with the iconography; however, in our humble opinion, the flag (like most US State flags) is very poorly designed.

Excellent! We love the flag.

Buff is a great color for flags. There are some washed-out examples - the field of the flag of the State of New Jersey is supposed to be buff!

Buff is for personal liberty, representative democracy, and the rule of law. Be BUFF.

The US Whigs were actually given the name by James Watson Webb, as the Whigs opposed the whims and caprice of an executive that seemed to sneer at Congressional opprobrium. The Whigs were opposed to President Andrew Jackson.

You might recognize Webb from @jbf1755.bsky.social's "Field of Blood!"

That's not to say that some Whigs were opposed to slavery or supported it; just that, as a political party, they failed to organize around the paramount issue that polarized politics for decades in the US, except to keep adding band-aids.

The American Whigs, though, foundered upon the rocks of slavery. The Whigs in the North could not answer the call to abolish slavery without destroying the Southern Whigs; the Southern Whigs likewise could not support their northern partners. The party fractured and dissolved over this issue.

of a new liberal order. The Whigs were first and foremost believers in the rule of law and the supremacy of Parliament.

The Whigs were also aristocrats and wealthy people; there was no franchise for people who were not.

The Whigs in the United States mirrored the Brit Whigs in these respects.

That's a bit more history than we are used to!

The anti-Cavalier faction in Britain after the restoration of the monarchy and bringing back Charles II opposed absolute monarchial rule. They adopted the name Whig, which was originally an insult.

The Whigs were first and foremost the harbringers

These anti-Cavalier aristocrats and gentry were called, derisively, 'Whigs,' comparing them to the Presbyterian radicals that opposed the Scottish faction that sought collaboration with and restoration of Charles I during the latter's imprisonment before he was executed.

Buff is the color of leather, particularly the color of heavy-duty bull-hide leather that can stop a sword or sometimes a musketball.

Coats of buff leather were worn by British cavalrymen and officers. It was adopted by anti-Cavalier aristocrats opposed to absolute monarchy in late 1600s England.

love it

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