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Many media simplified and aggrandized this to the title of 'Worst Flag In North America'. In 2015, Roman Mars held a TED Talk, popularizing the question of flag design and the last place of Pocatello in the survey, and motivating the city to create a new flag.

In addition to representing the natural beauty of Pocatello, the peaks symbolize industry, recreation, and education. The compass rose is a directional emblem symbolizing Pocatello's central role as a transportation and trade hub for rail, road, and air.

This somewhat complicated (but well-balanced and non-extreme) mix comes from a history of political activism mixing with a religious population. Around 75 percent of the population is Mormon, but the tried and true conservative stereotype does not hold fully true here, as seen throughout its history.

Billie Bird, a character actress who you'd recognize if you're old enough, was born in Pocatello.

Like most other states in the Mountain West, Idaho has been a Republican stronghold for the last several decades, having voted Democratic just once since that Eisenhower win – the 1964 landslide victory of Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

The name "Pocatello" comes from an Indian chief of the Shoshone tribe who granted the railroad a right-of-way through the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Shoshone and Bannock Indian tribes inhabited southeastern Idaho for hundreds of years before the epic trek by Lewis and Clark across Idaho in 1805.

Chief Pocatello (known in the Shoshoni language as Tondzaosha (Buffalo Robe); 1815 – October 1884) was a leader of the Northern Shoshone, a Native American people of the Great Basin in western North America. He led attacks against early settlers during a time of increasing strife between settlers and Native Americans.

After its founding in 1889, Pocatello became known as the "Gate City" for being a gateway to Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. As pioneers, gold miners and settlers traveled the Oregon Trail, they passed through the Portneuf Gap south of town.

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Living in Pocatello offers residents a sparse suburban feel and most residents own their homes. In Pocatello there are a lot of parks. Many families and young professionals live in Pocatello and residents tend to lean conservative. The public schools in Pocatello are above average.

States with the Largest Mormon Population:

Utah - 2,173,560. California - 728,995. Idaho - 473,894.

Pocatello, Idaho, is the third most dangerous city in Idaho. It has a violent crime rate of 371 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

Some of the best neighborhoods in or around Pocatello, Idaho are Old Town, Bonneville and Lewis and Clark.

POCATELLO, Idaho -- A polygamous man has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of abusing boys in his care. Nathan Jessop, who is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, entered his plea Thursday, and was sentenced to 10 days in jail, and two years' probation.

Ohio has the only U.S. pennant that's not rectangular, but a swallowtail, or burgee, design. The “O” references the state's first letter as well as its nickname, the Buckeye State. As you might imagine, folding the flag was tricky.

Findlay, Ohio, was officially declared “Flag City, U.S.A.” on May 7, 1974, by House Joint Resolution #1003, introduced by Congressman Tennyson Guyer.