New West Virginian Flag Please

I made several concepts for a new West Virginian flag a LONG time ago, I don't remember, maybe 2 years?

Why do I hate most state flags? I rant about it here: New Flag for Hawai'i Maybe and probably several other comic descriptions here: nebulan.deviantart.com/gallery… eventually I'll write up a nice document detailing why I think they should redesign the flag and offer my suggestions to my state representatives.
The colors mean stuff like black for coal, (concept from fixtheflags.blogspot.com/2011/… ) what WV is built on (lol almost literally) white for purity (I guess there's some un-touched forests) blue for the union (I love that West Virginia's creation was out of a loop-hole) and the red and gold means something too but I don't remember... green for nature? something. So when I left in the borders or fields, that was the reason.  The white field with blue border was for the West Virginians that are afraid of change. Suggested symbols: Rolling hills, the wild rhododendron, the cardinal, The New River Gorge bridge (what we got on our quarter). WV government keeps trying to push the "we're modern, we swear" and so they try to have slogans like "Ready for Business" and so they may not like my nature themed designs but you know what? that's what I think is the best thing about WV? granted, it doesn't create very many jobs which makes it hard for us young adults to find jobs and STAY in WV but what can you do?  Which is why I'm for including the bridge on the flag, to represent industry, moderism. The curve of the rhody branch actually matches the south border of WV. I had other concepts that had the whole state more visible but I didn't like them.  They were too complicated.  the middle two on the left qualify for my rule for flags: must be reproducible by nine-year-olds cub scouts.

Granted, dear State of West Virginia, if you use any of my concepts, please use a cardinal or new river gorge picture who you got the rights to use, because I don't remember where I got the pictures I traced my versions with. The cardinal might have been under stock photography here on deviantart but the bridge may not have been. Obviously get a professional artist. I'll volunteer but it would be amateur.

Other flag sites:
fixtheflags.blogspot.com/2011/…
yourstateflagstinks.blogspot.c…
www.flagsforum.com/viewtopic.p…

So what do you think? What colors should a WV flag have and what would they represent? What symbols should it include? Being from Northern WV I don't care that much about coal so have a black border is all I need, but do you think it needs more?