Today I found out that the ERA was ratified by Nevada last week, even though it’s after the deadline. It’s the first ratification to pass since the 35th ratification in Indiana in 1977.

The history of the ERA’s passage is one which is extremely complicated and is a zeitgeist of the latter 20th century’s constitutional amendments and our reticence to pass new amendments. With Nevada’s latter-day passage, the “three-state strategy” of NOW becomes a “two-state strategy”.

I’m assuming that Illinois, with a Democratic majority in both houses (but also a Republican governor​), may be the next state to experience a full fight for the ERA. But even Illinois’ Democratic Party has been tough to budge in favor of the ERA.

But after Illinois, which state? The fight for the ERA may likely stall against GOP majorities in both houses of state legislatures in most of these states. They’re all in the South.