I think it could be argued that the Texas state flag was the result of a near sighted, dyslexic and illiterate North Carolinian that travelled westward. Why? The North Carolina flag only has one star. Flip the red & white colors of the NC flag and you have the Texas flag. Make the star bigger (because you found the NC star harder to see), and remove any writing (I guess an explanation is unnecessary.).

The flags are pretty darned similar.

Texas joined the Union on December 29, 1845 and North Carolina joined the Union November 21, 1789 as the 12th state of the 13 original colonies.

So these two were the first to have a “lone” star on their state flag, but not the only states. Both Arizona and New Mexico joined the Union in 1912. And God forbid that Puerto Rico join in the future.

You might argue that the New Mexico flag has a symbolic Sun on it’s flag, but what is the Sun, but a star up close.