Your challenge, with a POD no earlier than January 1st 1900, is to have the United States of America stop using the stars and stripes as its flag. Simply changing the number of stars/stripes does not count.
Conditions:
- No new emerging states - the 'USA', whatever size it is in your scenario, must use the Constitution of the United States verbatim as its constitution (whether it follows it is another matter - dictatorships using amendments and 'emergency powers' are fine) and be accepted internationally as the USA.
- Anything goes. I'm aware that this is quite a tough challenge, so I'm not imposing a 'no nukes/wars/rebellions' rule apart from the above one. You want to make President Dirksen replace the stars and stripes with a black flag of mourning after the 18 Hour War of 1956, that's fine. Moderate handwavium permitted but total ASBs frowned upon. What's important is the reasoning behind changing the flag.
- For brownie points, explain what the new flag looks like or, if possible, post a picture of it.
Conditions:
- No new emerging states - the 'USA', whatever size it is in your scenario, must use the Constitution of the United States verbatim as its constitution (whether it follows it is another matter - dictatorships using amendments and 'emergency powers' are fine) and be accepted internationally as the USA.
- Anything goes. I'm aware that this is quite a tough challenge, so I'm not imposing a 'no nukes/wars/rebellions' rule apart from the above one. You want to make President Dirksen replace the stars and stripes with a black flag of mourning after the 18 Hour War of 1956, that's fine. Moderate handwavium permitted but total ASBs frowned upon. What's important is the reasoning behind changing the flag.
- For brownie points, explain what the new flag looks like or, if possible, post a picture of it.