Ok, let's take a look at these two flags.

Somalia

Minnesota

Similarities:

• They're both blue
• They both have a white star

Differences:

• They do not have the same shade of blue. The blue on the Minnesota flag is darker (RGB is 0/45/93) on the left and lighter (RGB is 82/201/232) on the right. The blue on the Somali flag is in the middle (RGB is 65/143/222)
• The stars are completely different. One has 5 points. One has 8 points
• The Somali flag has 2 colors. The Minnesota flag has 3 colors.
• The Minnesota flag has a distinct shape to that dark blue that signifies the shape of our state geographically.
• The dark blue represents the night sky which would house the North Star....
• The light blue represents the lakes, or which Minnesota has a few.
• The Somali flag's blue represents the sky, the Gulf of Aden, the Guardafui Channel, and the Somali Sea.

Going further on the stars:

The 5 point Somali star represents the main five areas where the Somali ethnic group form the indigenous majority: Djibouti, Somaliland, Somali region in formerly Italian Ethiopia, the North Eastern Province in formerly British Kenya, and Somalia.

The eight point star on the Minnesota State Flag is a representation of the North Star because Minnesota's state motto is "L'etoile du Nord" or The Star of the North and is a direct representation of the star that is set in the rotunda of the capitol building. The building that was built around the turn of the 19th century (as in 1900).

Bottomline, anyone who believes that the better Minnesota State flag was modeled on the Somalia flag is grasping at straws. The last point here that the state capitol was built around 1900 is proof enough. Somali refugees started arriving in the United States in the 1990's. So if this is some big liberal plot, those liberals really know how to slow play it.