"This is our flag."

In terms of design (and sometimes symbolism), most U.S. state flags stink. People have been trying to have their respective state flags improved or replaced for decades, but they are almost always shot down.

One argument legislators sometimes use is this:

"THIS is OUR flag!"

In other words, whatever design is currently official - even if it is a state's fifth flag - is "our" flag, even though citizens weren't allowed to vote for it.

It seems to brief to qualify as an argument, but is there an implied fallacy in  there? ( This is our flag, therefore we should not change it. )

One  possibility is equivocation (I think that's the term), with "our" meaning different things to different people. Another possibility is the suggestion that flags can't or shouldn't be changed, even though they have been changed many times over the years. What fallacy would that be?