The economy is doing good in Nevada. Unemployment is bouncing between 3.5 and 4%. Primary reason: Many of the companies exiting California are setting up shop there. I don't go their very often, but every time I drop over the hill into Reno, some other big company has opened up an office there. I was pleasantly surprised to see one of the big pharmaceutical companies had opened up offices there. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have a very obvious presence, as do most banks. Lots of business moving in there, and they can barely throw up office buildings fast enough.
On the upside, one of my friends there who is a professor says that the state is becoming more conservative every day as people move there. Most people forget that Nevada was a Democrat state for a long time and that the conversion to Republicans is recent, hence the large number of Democrat incumbents. But the Democrats are rapidly losing ground as the people moving into the state are overwhelmingly conservative in nature.