Arizona used to be very Red until the cost of living in California got to them. Texas has plenty of economic refugees.
we just hope they’re industrious and contribute. But the roads! Jeeez!!
I could be wrong about Nevada, and at the end of the day, it PROBABLY doesn't matter, but it just seems like it's been trending purple/red the past decade. A lot of conservatives who have left Oregon in the past few years have been heading to Arizona and Nevada. There has been a pretty significant exodus of conservative leaning folks to red states from Oregon the past few years.