Last week, Sally Jo Sorenson of Bluestem Prairie – one of the small minority of Minnesota progblogs that don’t deserve police surveillance or restraining orders – was jumping up and down over this article in the Minnesota Daily, the U of M newspaper.
It’s an interview with a couple of design and communications professors, going over the symbology of various campaign signs.
On the one hand, I do a lot of that sort of thing as part of my day job. It’s more than an academic subject to me.
Sorenson quotes the piece in the Daily by Kevin Karner, in re the two professors’ comparisons of the signs in the Secretary of State Race between Steve “Couldn’t Get To 45% in the Primary” Simon and Dan Severson:
Severson also tries to indicate his party affiliation through color, but the placement of the blue ribbon with white stars over a red backdrop almost evokes the Confederate Flag — an odd choice for Minnesota.
Here’s the Confederate Flag – the “Stars and Bars”, which sounds a little like an uptown hipster tavern.
Yep – red field, blue bars, white stars. Modeled after the Union Jack. Maybe the regional left needs to get on the Scots and Brits for their racist microaggressions.
Here’s Severson’s:
Red “Republican” background. Blue stripe – unlike the Rebel flat, there’s one, not two of them, and not only is it wavy, but it and its white stars seem to vanish into the distance. Almost like something zipping across the sky. Leaving contrails behind it, even.
Now, I’m not a college professor or a progblogger, so I have no idea what one might associate with Dan Severson…
…that would involve something with a star on it flashing across the sky into the distance?
Being neither an associate design professor nor a progblogger with numerous elite academic credentials, I’m obviously too stupid to figure it out.
Heck, we all are! It just has to be a Confederate flag reference! Sometimes I just feel so stupid.
Hm. What could that slashing, star-clad blue ribbon mean?
DUURRR! DAAAAAAAR! Stupid conservative blogger! Must smash things!
Oh, yeah; Sorenson:
Given the side Minnesota’s soldiers fought on in the Civil War, it’s odd indeed.
Given the side Ms. Sorenson’s Democrat party forebears fought on in the Civil War, I suppose it’s just high time for incongruity.
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