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I sent the flag meme to someone in Minnesota who informed me that it was wrong.

Actual new MN flag:

I suspect the somali/muslim version we've seen was one of many under consideration. Perhaps (I'm guessing) there was too much exposure and they were forced to choose one that was not so overtly subversive.

There was actually a big discussion about the new Minnesota flag design in the graphic designer lounge over at LinkedIn. No one is happy about it, for many reasons: 1) the government requested designers submit “on spec” (without pay) in the form of a contest to pick a winner. Can you think of any other vendor or contractor who submits completed work (not just a proposal for work, but a submission of the final work) to the government for no pay? So hundreds of professional designers submitted work on spec—let this be a lesson to them. 2) a well-established and talented professional designer had created about 5 versions of a new flag and state seal and posted them to his website. That was his choice, but it should be known that every single design submitted was a poor ripoff of the truly beautiful work that he had done, including the final version.

the only reason I am able to translate the final design selected is because I had read the other designer’s explanation of his solutions. The requirements in the brief included a depiction of the North Star, as Minnesota is known as The North Star State. They also wanted reference to its 10,000 lakes, and a depiction of its Scandinavian heritage. So many of the designs included depictions of the single white star as a Scandinavian quilted star design in a dark blue field, in addition to the lake blue and grass green colors to represent the lakes and farmland.