The US_STATES enum is sorted by state code, but STATE_CHOICES (and old Django versions such as https://github.com/django/django/commit/4b2b2eda24) are sorted by state name. The net effect is that Nevada SHOULD sort before New Jersey, but in fact sorts after since NV is after NJ.
https://github.com/django/django-localflavor/blob/master/localflavor/us/us_states.py
The US_STATES enum is sorted by state code, but STATE_CHOICES (and old Django versions such as https://github.com/django/django/commit/4b2b2eda24) are sorted by state name. The net effect is that Nevada SHOULD sort before New Jersey, but in fact sorts after since NV is after NJ.