Louisiana Flag

The state flag of Louisiana has been through many changes in the last hundred and 50 years as have the people of Louisiana. The state flag of Louisiana has had essentially the same flag since 1912 and it wasn't until 2006 that an eighth grader told that his congressmen that the state flag of Louisiana has never been consistently upheld with the images that have been on it. From the mouths of babes… it wasn't until then that the most current and contemporary flag had been implemented and locked into place so that there was only one state flag for the state of Louisiana. But the state flag of Louisiana has a great deal of history prior to that time.

If you are interested in finding out more about the official state flag of the state of Louisiana then you need to go all the way back to 1861. In 1861, the state of Louisiana had no official flag and it wasn't until that year that they implemented a flag which was not very similar to the modern one that is used. The unofficial state flag for Louisiana in 1861 first was a vertical rectangle of blue with seven white stars in a circle and then there was a vertical rectangle of all maroon or orange but then in February of 1861 they came up with a blue white and orange flag with a yellow star which was very similar to the flag of the United States of America. Only difference was as there were blue, white, and orange stripes down from the top and in the upper left corner was a orange box with a yellow star in it. One large yellow star. This was a flag which remained in use until the end of the US civil war even though the pelican flag had been adopted and put into place unofficially in 1861.

The story with the people of Louisiana is that they like their flags and they like to have many different options and choices for themselves. This is the big reason that the Louisiana flag hadn't been even settled on until 2006. Apparently the pelican had had some drops of blood that were used occasionally to represent a mother pelican in her nesting phase but it wasn't until an eighth grader in 2006 that pointed out the fact that the blood was never used consistently that this was changed and put into place consistently.