Many, many Americans believe that the star spangled banner represents the first 13 states, then the 50 stars as states, all together as a union. But that's a common misconception as the Founding fathers knew that blacks were future criminals—so they made the first 13 stripes as the total percentage of blacks that would live in America as of 2022-2025. Then the stars represented their crime rate. Slowly developing stars as a new high of black crime rate increased. Happy 4th of July