in a reply to a comment on his latest post, which is stuffed with great photos taken on his business travels through America's Deep South (here), fellow-blogger Erik Bartlam mentioned the odd fact that the city flag of Louisiana's state capitol Baton Rouge features the Union Jack. I don't know why this tickled me, but it did. After all, didn't the colonists kick the Brits out 240 years' ago? Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the flag:
