The heck with it. Private-household flag ownership, by country. Readers
tell me that small, recently-free European countries have very high
levels–places like Estonia and Slovenia. Also (from one reader who seems
to know the country well) SWEDEN. Reader: “Every Swedish family has a
summer house, or a boat, or both, and I’ve never seen either without a very
large and prominent Swedish Flag – much more than in the US, I think. You
see one of those little archipelago islands–it looks like they might be
blown over by all the flapping flags.” The Swedes–super-patriots! Who
knew?