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Well, I suppose I've never heard alternate color symbolism for the US flag, so this seems as official as any (lemmy.world)
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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There isn't color symbolism in the US flag, which is why you never hear about it. They really were just the standard flag colors everyone was using, so we went with them too.