COLOMBIA – A committee of the Senate of SC chose the preference for a standardized state flag design, but it will be up to the House as a whole to determine whether the design should be maintained.
A March 24 vote by the Senate Veterans and Family Services Committee chose an image that depicts a palm tree that was adopted in 1910 on the state’s second official flag.
It is a symmetrical design with robust fronds and a grassy trunk at its base. The band retains an indigo tone that evokes a shadow of the uniforms worn by Colonel William Moultrie’s second regiment in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
The indigo dye was also produced in that homonymous factory in Lowcountry during Moultrie’s lifetime, and the indigo became the state’s official color in 2008.
A Senate subcommittee, which held the initial hearing on March 16 on giving the state flag a standard design for the first time in 80 years, wanted to offer policymakers options after the reaction to a proposed initial design with a thin palm that was ridiculed on social media for resembling a bathroom brush, among other colorful descriptions.
A panel of experts, who worked for two years on a project, suggested two options with more substantial trees.
If the Senate supports the bill withdrawn from the committee, it will go to the House. Representatives could choose the bill that was not chosen by the Senate.
“No matter what the Senate or the House does, it will not please everyone,” said state senator Ronnie Cromer, a Republican of Prosperity and the main sponsor of the flag design bill, during the committee’s hearing on 24 December. March.
This is the second choice of SC flag design offered by historians, known as Option B, which was not chosen by a Senate panel on March 24.
Historians sought a standardized state design after realizing the interpretation of the flag by different manufacturers. Nothing in state law specifies that the flag should look like its three elements – a palm tree with a crescent moon on a blue background.
While the crescent and blue background were generally uniform, the tree varied in appearance depending on who made the flag.
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