Marylanders - Did your son/daughter take the Maryland flag to hang up in their dorm room?

[Anonymous]

My dd’s boyfriend (exchange student from Brazil) is obsessed with the Maryland flag. He wants one for Christmas.

[Anonymous]

I have had 3 kids, all headed to out of state liberal arts schools. State flags in a dorm room seemed pretty standard, at least for boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two kids, each out of state. Both have flags from their colleges, not from Maryland

Why would they have the college flag on the wall of a dorm on the college campus?Or you mean those triangular felt flags?

I mean college flags from their colleges, as do hundreds of other kids (probably thosands, but I havent seen that many dorm rooms). I've never seen any other flags at their schools other than the school they are at

[Anonymous]

I thought the Maryland flag was somewhat controversial because of the ties to racism. The red and white part ties back to Marylanders that were on the side of the Confederacy?

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/historypolitics/does-the-maryland-state-flag-have-ties-to-the-confederate-cause/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the Maryland flag was somewhat controversial because of the ties to racism. The red and white part ties back to Marylanders that were on the side of the Confederacy?

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/historypolitics/does-the-maryland-state-flag-have-ties-to-the-confederate-cause/

Both parts are Maryland. When the country split, the heraldry split. When the country unified, the heraldry unified.

Confederates ate peanut butter. Are you going to hat doesn't butter too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We received one as a gift for DS to take to college and hang in his dorm room.

Gift giver shared it’s common for kids to hang their state flag up in their dorm room.

Did yours?

It's your kid's choice. Why are you nosing into other people's gifts? Detached.

[Anonymous]

It weirds me out when the Maryland flag is in the shape of a flag.

[Anonymous]

It's a great flag. Virginia kids who go out of state aren't doing the same because the state flag is meh.

[Anonymous]

My son's roommate did. California school. California flag.

[Anonymous]

Nope, but it sounds like a nice way to dress up a drab dorm room. Love the MD flag too. I have seen kids' dorm rooms with state flags, so maybe not as common as your friend thought, but not weird or unheard of.

[Anonymous]

It is really common if you are from a different state than where your college is located.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

My Maryland son took a flag to hang in his dorm at a SEC school, and the parents FB group has pics of the dorm move-in with flags from all over the country and around the world. It’s a thing—especially for boys.

My kid is a junior living off campus, and he still has the MD flag in his rental.

Regardless of where you land on the flag, I can report my kid quickly met other students from MD or the DC metro area when wearing a MD t-shirt out and about. It’s a great conversation starter apparently. The first week he was on campus he was in a bar and had a couple guys walk over to introduce themselves—they were from MD. They are still buddies.

[Anonymous]

Virginia’s flag is so boring. Maryland and DC kids are lucky to have a cool flag to hang!

[Anonymous]

Hanging a state flag anywhere, other than a government office, is plain weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This seems like a very UMD thing to do. Low class.

Low class?? Really? Hanging a state flag is low class? And UMD is low class? Person who wrote this is a moron, a high class moron.