[aaronbwebber]

| the sunrise spread across the city on its own, on t-shirts and stickers and bike frames and beer cans

tfa appears to admit that people are actually _using_ the new Milwaukee flag. This seems like a pretty strong argument that the new flag actually is better than the old flag? It is kinda cool to have a very distinctive local flag, but if the practical upshot of that is that the flag isn't actually used anywhere except a single flagpole in front of city hall (if that), seems like the vexillology people kind of have a point?

[F3nd0]

Is it because the new flag is better, or is it really because some sort of a movement has formed around it? In other words, would the new flag have been this popular if it had already been the official flag, or does it owe its success to its role as the sleek, new, modern thing trying to displace the old and outdated design? I feel like this could be an important factor.