Neither in Tartan nor in Scotland

[OC Richard]

About state shapes, a surprising number are big rectangles, perhaps with a nick in one corner here or there, or a wiggly bit on one side, showing a desire to ignore topography and/or a lack of imagination.

http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/08/30/wh...-form-a-heart/

Also... odd that the majority of our State Flags are the same, plain blue rectangles with the State seal etc in the middle... makes you appreciate the ones that have unique designs

http://www.unitedwestandflags.com/images/stateflags.jpg

Anyhow the common American mixing of Scotland and Ireland has been helped along by the unfortunate term "Scotch-Irish". Once, while I was out playing the pipes, a young girl came up and enthusiastically informed me that her ancestors were from "Scotch-Ireland". (Where else, when you think about it, would the Scotch-Irish hail from?)

[Deirachel]

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Also... odd that the majority of our State Flags are the same, plain blue rectangles with the State seal etc in the middle... makes you appreciate the ones that have unique designs

http://www.unitedwestandflags.com/images/stateflags.jpg

That link is out of date, Georgia doesn't use the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia anymore (the "Confederate Flag").

This is the current Georgia state flag.

http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst090.gif

Using the older Stars and Bars based-design (one of those lovely things about my state, we get rid of the "racist" "Confederate" flag based off the second official CSA flag and replace it with a design based off the first official Confederate States of America's flag. Wait wut? How is that less racist? Hell, how is the second flag racist?)

[SeumasA]

Also... odd that the majority of our State Flags are the same, plain blue rectangles with the State seal etc in the middle... makes you appreciate the ones that have unique designs

I once heard the Utah flag referred to as the state seal on a bed sheet.