A Northern California city has become the first in the San Francisco Bay Area to ban the flag of the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously ...

The rebel standard, the flag of the so-called California Republic, became the California State Flag. It’s time California dump that flag, a symbol of blatant illegality and racial prejudice.

When California adopted an official state flag in 1911, they hearkened back to the days of that brief republic of 1846 and chose a modernized rendition of the (mistaken) bear flag design.

That’s the yellow flag with three horizontal red stripes that represented the former Republic of Vietnam, the “South Vietnam” the U.S. backed in its battles against communist insurgents ...

The California state flag that we know today was not adopted by the state legislature until 1953, but how did a bear, a red star and the words “California Republic” find themselves on the ...