Source is Part III § 2 of the US flag code enshrined by 4 U.S.C. § 5.
On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.
This isn’t legally binding – you can fly a US flag with five stars representing the CCP and its four governed social classes if you want. But it does represent official federal guidance on the design of the US flag. So if Washington, D.C. were added as a state, you wouldn’t see the 51st star appear on federal buildings until the subsequent Independence Day.
Thanks, Cris. I guess we’ll just have to read the funny-papers to see, eh?
I think it can be traced back fairly directly going back ~60yrs ago. But really? It was more like a foundational problem with the way this clown-show empire was built from the ground up.
It was Reagan. Everything wrong is basically a game of 6 degrees of Ronald Reagan.
Even early, Nixon.
“Centrist” in theory, who laid down a path of doom in so many ways…