When I become king, the state of Georgia will have a new flag.
It will be a peach. A simple, single Georgia peach on a white background. Georgia is, after all, the Peach State. Says so on our tags.
Look! Cute little peaches in the corner…
If you don’t live in Georgia, you are likely unaware that my state has a flag identity problem.
In my lifetime, we’ve had 4 different flags. For most of those years, the state flag incorporated the Confederate Battle Flag.
As it became unpopular to honor or celebrate anything Confederate, eventually that flag had to go. Yes, it was certainly going to piss off a certain segment of the population, but change was in the wind.
It was an unenviable task, and the governor at the time tried to keep that certain segment of the population from getting too pissed off by giving us a new flag that still recognized the previous flag, while incorporating other previous state flags.
It was hideous and lasted just long enough for the next governor to come in, declare it hideous and change it to what we have now.
Current Georgia state flag. Bleh…
Think about good, recognizable flags. Alaska has the Big Dipper. Texas, the Lone Star State, has a flag with a lone star. New Mexico’s Native American sun flag.
South Carolina, the Palmetto State, has a flag with a palmetto tree.
Lovely and instantly recognizable
Honestly, I think you could show the Georgia state flag to most Georgians, they wouldn’t know what state it represents. It is most uninteresting.
We are the Peach State. We need a peach.
My wife argues against this, pointing out that we are neither #1 nor #2 in peach production. Those distinctions belong to California and South Carolina, respectively.
Doesn’t matter. We’re known as the Peach State, nationwide. We were reminded of that on a recent trip to Montana.
One restaurant served Brussels sprouts, ‘Georgia-style.’
Caramelized peaches add sweetness
Another restaurant in Bozeman actually named their peachy dish for Georgia.
Should have used pecans but oh my word, this was good!
The peach is almost the perfect fruit. It smells, looks and tastes so lovely. We refer to a pretty Georgia girl as a Georgia Peach, perhaps for similar reasons. Add ‘soft’ into the mix.
Using my wife’s reasoning - that we need to be a leading producer of something for it to be on the flag - our flag would feature a peanut. Or a pecan.
That’s nuts.
Courtesy of The Collection of F’Arts (Flag Arts) owned by Monica M Giles