ZUMBROTA, Minn. —  The Zumbrota City Council voted 3-2 to keep the old Minnesota flag hanging in its meeting chamber — not the new North Star flag approved last vear by the Legislature. Right-wingers claimed the new design was rammed through the Legislature without public input. Their objection was untrue: Extensive discussion and thinking had gone into the new design with months of news coverage. Regardless, the old flag still is in place inside Zumbrota City Hall despite lots of negatives: Up a flag pole, for example, the old flag was undistinguishable sable from many other blue state flags with a cluttery state shield  as a centerpiece. The old flag also didn’t bespeak anything specific about Minnesota. The old flag also had racist and sexist overtones from earlier eras.

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Not a North Star in Zumbrota. Pout, pout.  Resistance to new state flag prevails in Zumbrota..