Alabaman red cross

At a first glimpse it is just white base and a red diagonal cross, but it has a deeper meaning to it.

Alabama was one of the Confederate States, so the south, in the country's Civil War(1861-1865), his influenced the Alabaman flag, thus having the former Confederate battle flag as a main influence to it's appearance. The Confederate battle flag was inspired by a diagonal X-shaped cross on which a disciple of Jesus named Saint Andrew was crucified, therefore named "The Cross Of Saint Andrew".

The flag was adopted on February 16 1865,though Alabama already gained statehood on December 14 1819 as the twenty-second state of the Union.