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Florida State flag, Florida state flags, FL, state flags, state flag (589 words) |
 | Florida's original state flag, in 1845, was only used once because it created a political commotion. |
| The next Florida state flag, in 1861, was designed because Florida FL was preparing to secede from the Union and could no longer use the Union flag. |
| The new, new 3'x5' Georgia state flag which was authorized in May 2003 and approved by the public in the February 2004 election is now the official Georgia State Flag. |
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Georgia State Flag, Current (231 words) |
| Support for the new flag came from critics of the 2001 flag and those who felt there should be a public referendum on the state flag. |
| Georgia's new state flag is based on the first national flag of the Confederacy (the "Stars and Bars") and consists of a field of three horizontal bars of equal width, two red separated by a white bar in the center. |
| In the center of the canton is a circle of 13 white stars, symbolizing Georgia and the other 12 original states that formed the United States of America. |
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