WI: Nevada never legalizes gambling?

Probably a broader/deeper POD than you wanted @djPROUDGEEK, and pre 1900, but the LDS angle is most likely to get you the result. I'm thinking if we managed to rearrange the SW territories and subsequent states it'd the most interesting means of killing gambling. Keep Nevada part of the Utah territory. Keep NM territory or divide it. (Assuming NM legalizes gamblubg, keeping it whole permits you to have legal gambling right across to border from California.) Delay most of the mining finds in Nevada, and you can work it that way - I think.
 
Probably a broader/deeper POD than you wanted @djPROUDGEEK, and pre 1900, but the LDS angle is most likely to get you the result. I'm thinking if we managed to rearrange the SW territories and subsequent states it'd the most interesting means of killing gambling. Keep Nevada part of the Utah territory. Keep NM territory or divide it. (Assuming NM legalizes gamblubg, keeping it whole permits you to have legal gambling right across to border from California.) Delay most of the mining finds in Nevada, and you can work it that way - I think.
You could do a lot with pre-1900 PODs with the western states. After all, they're all arbitrary creations made by settlers after cleansing the land of the indigenous peoples who inhabited it. You can mix-and-match state boundaries like no tomorrow.
 
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