When I introduced legislation to allow counties to vote to live under the laws and taxes of a neighboring State, I researched buying a hundred South Dakota flags to hand out to people. I was bummed to learn that their flag was as boring and indistinguishable as ours, along with 21 other states who have a round seal on a blue background. I learned that Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht introduced legislation to change the State flag decades ago and, although this flag is slightly different than his, I am happy to see a design that is simple and recognizable when being flown. To my conservative friends: stop holding onto and defending a boring and indistingushable flag. Was there a risk the commission could adopt some radical BLM or Antifa flag? Maybe. But they didn't. Stop wasting energy and resources balking about erasing history. The old flags will fly until they are tattered and ready to replace. We have a hundred radical policies and tax increases to attack democrats on. Stopping the new state flag isn't productive. I, for one, support this, and I like the flag. Major improvement. This post might attract more hate mail than when I suggested we go on year-round daylight savings time, but I am curious why you support keeping a flag that, from 50' away, looks like 23 other states. – at Minnesota, USA