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Southeast Minnesota City Becomes Latest to Reject New State Flag
Council members said the 1983 design better represents Minnesotans, and there is no state mandate requiring cities to fly the 2024 flag.
- On Tuesday, April 14, the Plainview City Council voted 3-2 to fly the old Minnesota state flag on city-owned property, rejecting the new design adopted in 2024.
- Plainview, a city of 3,500 people 20 miles northeast of Rochester, joined other communities shifting back after City Administrator David Todd said members felt the committee didn't represent the "overall opinion of folks" statewide.
- No state mandates require municipalities to fly the new flag, allowing cities like Zumbrota and Champlain to also opt for the pre-2024 design earlier this year.
- The new design became part of a polarizing political debate, with critics describing it as uninspiring or comparing it to the flag flown by Somalia.
- While the DFL Party spearheaded the replacement effort due to criticism of the old design's colonial imagery, the state Republican Party stated it would not fly the new flag.
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Southeast Minnesota city becomes latest to reject new state flag
Plainview, a city of 3,500 people 20 miles northeast of Rochester, was the latest municipality to join a small number of cities expressing its preference for the old flag.
·Cherokee County, United States
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Plainview becomes latest city to fly old flag, rejecting the new one
PLAINVIEW — Plainview has become the latest southeastern Minnesota city to reject flying the new Minnesota flag in favor of the old one. On Tuesday, the city council voted 3-2 in favor of a measure allowing city administration to fly the old Minnesota flag on city-owned property, rather than the new one adopted in 2024, said City Administrator David Todd. Plainview, a city of 3,500 people located 20 miles northeast of Rochester, was the latest m…
·Cherokee County, United States
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