Utah’s leaders and fans like to think of their state as unique. And, in many ways, it is. Some of them good.
But just try to pick our official state flag out of a line-up of all 50 state standards, and suddenly we don’t seem so special.
The Utah state flag is what vexillologists (folks who dig flags) call a Seal on a Bedsheet or, to be even more condescending about it, an S.O.B. Like the flags of Kansas, New York, New Hampshire, Kentucky and others, the Utah flag is a big blue field with the state seal in the center.