BRAZIL FLAGS
January 27th, 2012
Ok, the best flag is the black flag, no doubt, but when I just stumbled across these flags, I thought these look like some great alternatives to the US flag.
In fact, six of Brazil’s twenty-six federal states have flags that resemble the US flag, which was itself the basis for the original flag of Brazil after it became a republic in 1889.
The flag of São Paulo (at the bottom) was one proposal for a new Brazilian flag in 1889, abandoning the traditional green and yellow, as those were the colors of the royal family. During the 1932 civil war, the map of Brazil was replaced by a map of São Paulo state.
The best version of the US flag however is still the African American flag by artist David Hammons, from 1990:
