This is not the Alabama state flag.
It is, however, a good lesson in flag construction.
While this image bears an uncanny resemblance to Alabama's state flag, there is a minor technicality in Alabama state law that means this small image is not the real deal. The flag's specifications, adopted by Act No. 383 of the 1895 Legislature of Alabama (Acts 1894-1895, p. 719) and codified as Section 1-2-5, state the following:
"The flag of the state of Alabama shall be a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white. The bars forming the cross shall be not less than six inches broad, and must extend diagonally across the flag from side to side."
This looks like a reasonable explanation, but the problem lies in the width of the lines. The code says specifically that they must be six inches wide, without specifying the size of the rest of the flag. This means that, while its design is usually shown as it is above, there could be many different flags that all fall under Alabama Flag Code requirements.
What this also means is that unless you are looking at this on a very large and very precise screen, you're not looking at a true Alabama flag.
For this very reason, most flag codes will use ratios when describing how they want each element's dimensions to appear. Take the United States, for example. Here are its official proportions:
Hoist (height) of the flag: A = 1.0
Fly (width) of the flag: B = 1.9
Hoist (height) of the canton ("union"): C = 0.5385 (A × 7/13, spanning seven stripes)
Fly (width) of the canton: D = 0.76 (B × 2/5, two-fifths of the flag width)
E = F = 0.0538 (C/10, One-tenth of the height of the canton)
G = H = 0.0633 (D/12, One twelfth of the width of the canton)
Diameter of star: K = 0.0616 (L × 4/5, four-fifths of the stripe width, the calculation only gives 0.0616 if L is first rounded to 0.077)
Width of stripe: L = 0.0769 (A/13, One thirteenth of the flag height)
While this is a much more meticulous set of requirements, it allows for the flag to have a proper standardized look. Because it describes dimensions as having certain proportions to the whole of the flag, it is also infinitely scalable, unlike Alabama's.
There is a chance that some obscure act clears this up, but I could find no such legislation online. While this does not mean that no resolution exists, it means that if there was a fix, it was not very well-documented. Although the dimensional error is not a significant legal issue, as breaking a flag code will often have no real repercussions, it is an odd bit of history and vexillology that has gone largely unnoticed and unchanged for over a century.
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