Queen of the Clouds wrote:SheMalesofVenezuela wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:[font=Georgia][i]Malcanthet wrote:Queen of the Clouds wrote:MISS NEVADA USA 2020 CONTESTANTS ARE UP
http://www.missnevadausa.com/contestants/
Nevada is just a bastion for statehoppers. Does Shana not even enforce residence requirements??
I heard for Miss USA, the residency requirements has been lowered to 3 months and a contestant can only compete in two separate state pageants per year.
[color=#FF4080]Yes I know this (I think these are horrible residency requirements but that's besides the point), but Nevada has more statehoppers than any other state every year. I guess it could be its proximity sort of in the middle of big states (California and Texas aren't far) and how it typically holds its pageant late, but it seems as if they don't even check residency requirements (or it's just easy to fake them here). Las Vegas is Nevada's only nationally recognized city and it's not like every girl is moving there like it's NYC or LA. It just makes no sense.
Six months is already bad enough; they just made things worse with three months.
I remember Nia Sanchez’s difficult journey to the Miss USA crown. She simply couldn’t cut it at her original state pageants and had to resort to carpetbagging just to achieve her goal.
Yes Nia started a decent controversy with her carpetbagging. She was a born and raised Californian who couldn't win in California so she carpetbagged to Nevada. I think Nia was a very deserving winner who did us proud at Miss Universe, and she did claim to have a residence in Las Vegas because her modeling career was LA/LV based, but still I think we should be prioritizing actual permanent residents who don't have another state to fall back on if they fail in their primary one. If another one of these statehoppers wins Miss USA and doesn't have a good excuse like Nia did, they'll get clowned even harder; that's partly why I didn't want Allie to win Miss USA this year (Texan carpetbagger to New Mexico). I heard statehopper accusations even against Olivia Jordan, even though she was a born and raised Oklahoman who was just going to compete in her home state instead of in California where she lived for her modeling/acting career; I have no problem when girls do stuff like that, it's just when they compete in a state they don't really have any connection to because they're desperate is when I have a problem. If anything she statehopped to California. Brittany McGowan, Lauren York, and Carolina Urrea all only came to Nevada after failing in California, and I've heard mixed claims regarding if any of them were actual Nevadans (pretty sure Lauren definitely isn't, heard mixed things on Brittany and Carolina).
I'd rather the residency requirement be a year of proven residence (it is impossible to have three months residence in a state when you just competed in another state two months prior, clearly they're just using their friends’ or family's addresses), a state-issued identification card, and then a second supplementary document such as a school transcript or proof of employment. I have a New York ID, a New York address, and I go to school/work in New York, but could I use my dad's address in New Jersey and say I've been living there for three months to avoid the heavy competition in NY? My friend's address in Connecticut? I easily could, but I shouldn't be able to. It's totally unfair.
I especially feel bad for the rural girls living in small communities in states like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, the Dakotas, etc. This year at least Idaho and the Dakotas are represented by natives, but Montana and Wyoming are both Californian girls who carpetbagged. It's one thing carpetbagging to a state like Nevada which is metropolitan and full of people migrating from other places, but these small, rural states have almost entirely local populations whose families have lived there or in the general region for generations. There's already been controversy with Miss Montana USA being disliked by Montanans for apparently being ignorant to Montanan culture. Dani Walker carpetbagged to Montana too in 2017 after failing in California. I feel super bad for those local girls, they'll struggle a lot competing with well-trained, metropolitan, Californian models.
I can see both sides to this, honestly. People in their young adult years are highly mobile and often move frequently, I've lived in three states just in the first half of my twenties. As such, it makes sense to loosen residency requirements to some extent. Also, I'm of the opinion that some girls really deserve a title, and should be able to do what they can to get one. Mind you, I'm not a competitor, so it doesn't really effect me too much, and YES deep down I'd rather the contestant representing my home state be a local rather than a state-hopper, but at the end of the day they're still playing by the rules.