Spain had slave plantations in its Atlantic island possessions seventy years before Columbus sailed west and did not get around to abolishing slavery in Cuba until 1888. Subtracting 1420 from 1886, we get more than four and a half years in any system of counting. That is the flag to which public bureaucrats make innocent children mumble a civic prayer every morning - a misleading and constitutionally absurd prayer written by a Northern nationalist and socialist. But that flag doesn t remind anyone of slavery , I guess. Maybe it s the additional stars down the years, which obscure its continuity.
Striped clothing is said to make people look taller.
Horizontal stripes, I guess, make the empire look wider. Nonetheless, I grant the point. If the latter, there are at least two more state flags which will have to go. Just my luck I am a native of one of those states and now live in the other. No matter, a whiff of the old depleted uranium grapeshot across their bow, and the Scots and the English will certainly give up their crosses and hexes.