But it looks like more testimonial that the Civil War (er, the First one, but maybe also the Present beginning one)
was a Huge Mistake. We shoulda let the crackers secede.
By now they'd be the local teaching-lab: for getting Muricans prepared for the adjustment to Full Banana Republic folkways and mores (to complement the bankruptcy when it is formally declared.)

I mean, I mean:
ain't that darkest hued-territory an almost exact overlay on the Slave (and slavering) States du that jour, going right up to the borders!?
(noticing for the later 'Nevada' ... and especially Las Vegas' county: the modern concentration point for CDO operators, bankers and those occasional amateur-gamblers/voyeurs/suckers.)

(No wonder that photo-essay of Walmart Shoppers, some months back, was in da Souf == avoirdupois rhymes with I-slept-with-my-pa, maybe?)

Gahhhh.. as they say.