some took to social media to share alleged photos of an upside down American flag outside of the State Department building in Washington, D.C. But why is the flag being flown upside down at the ...

Languages: English. A bill which would redesign the Washington State flag has been blasted as "un-American" by state Republicans who fear a redesign would remove George Washington from the state flag.

The current state flag, designed by Olympia jeweler Charles Talcott, is green and depicts the state seal featuring Washington, the nation’s first president, with the year of statehood, 1889.