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WILBUR S. SHEPPERSON SERIES IN NEVADA HISTORY
Series Editor, Michael Green (UNLV)
Nevada is known politically as a swing state and culturally as a swinging state. Politically, its electoral votes have gone to the winning presidential candidate in all but two elections since 1912 (it missed in 1976 and 2016). Its geographic location in the Sun Belt; an ethnically diverse, heavily urban, and fast-growing population; and an economy based on tourism and mining make it a laboratory for understanding the growth and development of postwar America and post-industrial society. Culturally, Nevada has been associated with legal gambling, easy divorce, and social permissiveness. Yet the state also exemplifies conflicts between image and reality: It is also a conservative state yet depends heavily on the federal government. Its gaming regulatory system is the envy of the world but resulted from long and difficult experience with organized crime. And its bright lights often obscure the role of organized religion in Nevada affairs. To some who have emphasized the impact of globalization and celebrated or deplored changing moral standards, Nevada reflects America and the world; to others, it affects them.
This series is named in honor of one of the states most distinguished historians, author of numerous books on the states immigrants and cultural development, a longtime educator, and an advocate for history and the humanities. The series welcomes manuscripts on any and all aspects of Nevada that offer insight into how the state has developed and how its development has been connected to the region, the nation, and the world.
Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada and the Fish Creek Massacre
by Silvio Manno
A Great Basin Mosaic: The Cultures of Rural Nevada
by James W. Hulse
Gambling with Lives: A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas
by Michelle Follette Turk
The Sagebrush State: Nevadas History, Government, and Politics, Sixth Edition
by Michael W. Bowers
The Westside Slugger: Joe Neals Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
by John L. Smith
University of Nevada Press | Reno, Nevada 89557 USA
www.unpress.nevada.edu
Copyright 2021 by University of Nevada Press
All rights reserved
Cover photographs: (background) iStock/FierceAbin and iStock/btgbtg; (inset) iStock/DenisTangneyJr; (bottom) Allen Leo Svec.
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Names: Bowers, Michael Wayne, author.
Title: The Sagebrush State : Nevadas history, government, and politics / Michael W. Bowers.
Other titles: Nevadas history, government, and politics | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
Description: Sixth edition. | Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2021] | Series: Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Nevadas politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael W. Bowerss concise volume explains the dynamics of the political formation process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states. Even today, Nevada is unlike the other states in its politics and culture: economically right, yet libertarian and home to widespread gaming and a 24/7 lifestyle. It has a high percentage of federally owned lands and one of the highest rates of urbanism in the United States, yet is often dominated by rural legislators. This comprehensive and insightful explanation discusses how Nevadas history has shaped its political culture, and how its government operates today. The Sagebrush State serves as a highly readable and accessible text for the study of Nevadas political history and constitution, which is a graduation requirement at the states colleges and universities. The sixth edition is updated through 2020 and includes the full text of the state constitution with extensive annotations of all amendments to the original 1864 document.Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021008769 | ISBN 9781647790264 (paperback) | ISBN 9781647790271 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: NevadaHistory. | NevadaPolitics and government.
Classification: LCC F841 .B593 2021 | DDC 979.3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008769
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Since the publication of the fifth edition of The Sagebrush State, the state of Nevada underwent an incredible recovery from what were in some cases debilitating changes politically and economically only to be slapped down again in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the state (and the world), closing hotels, casinos, most businesses, and slowing economic activity to a fraction of what it had been. As a result, once again state budgets have taken a serious hit just as they did during the Great Recession. At the same time, many other changes have occurred as well. In addition to the elections that have taken place since the fifth edition and the new officeholders who have taken their seats, there have been two regular and two special sessions of the legislature.
In the preface to the third edition, I noted that the Democrats appear to be quickly losing ground in the Sagebrush State, given electoral successes by the Republicans in the 1990s and early 2000s. But in the fourth edition, I remarked that it is the case that the Republicans seem to be on the ropes, with Tea Party, Libertarian, and more traditional factions battling for the soul of the party. Although the latter part of that statement remained true, it is the case that the Republicans made stunning victories in the 2014 elections, capturing both houses of the legislature and all six constitutional offices. And although the Democratic Party organization put together by now-retired Harry Reid continues to dominate that partys politics, it is arguably not as strong as it was now that Reid is no longer majority leader of the US Senate. In 2016, the Democrats won back both houses of the state legislature and Hillary Clinton won the states six electoral votes. All of that says that (1) the author is perhaps not the seer he believed himself to be and that (2) both major parties remain competitive in the state with election outcomes very much dependent upon individual candidates and voter turnout. In the elections of 2018, the Democrats came roaring back to win five of the six constitutional officer positions and majorities in both houses of the legislature. Indeed, in the assembly the Democrats held a supermajority and were only one seat shy of that status in the senate. After the 2020 elections, the state senate remains closely divided with the Democrats falling froma 138 majority to a 129 majority, but the state assembly appears to be almost permanently in Democratic hands with the loss in 2014 a rare anomaly likely resulting from low turnout.
As most observers know, the state of Nevada was among the hardest hit by the Great Recession of 20072011. Unemployment rates and home foreclosures were the highest of any state. When the housing bubble burst, the bottom fell out of the construction industry, and many of these workers left the state to find jobs elsewhere. With national unemployment high and job security nonexistent in virtually every sector of the economy, tourists either did not have dollars to spend in Nevada or were too cautious to do so. As a result, the economy in the Sagebrush State tanked. Politically, the bad economy led to multiple special sessions of the legislature to balance the budget, conflict over raising taxes and cutting spending, and difficult relations between Governor Jim Gibbons and the legislature. In 2010, Gibbons became the first governor in Nevada to be denied renomination by his party. After the Great Recession ended, the state, as it has through many boom and bust cycles, came roaring back. Tourism returned to and even exceeded levels before the Great Recession; airport traffic was up; unemployment fell below 5 percent compared to more than 12 percent in 2011; construction was booming; the economy was diversifying; and major sports leagues came to the state in the National Football League (Raiders), the National Hockey League (Golden Knights), the American Hockey League (Henderson Silver Knights), Major League Soccer (Lights), and the Womens National Basketball Association (Aces).
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