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! . Houston Texas Business Directory Ornamental oil derricks in Kilgore, 16 Further reading Car culture is often celebrated by residents especially during the annual Art Car Parade where many uniquely modified cars are paraded through the Heights neighborhood Another car culture celebrated in Houston is the slab culture usually found in Houston's inner city neighborhoods (including former Houston-area suburban communities e.g South Park Sunnyside Acres Homes and enclaves in Missouri City) the cars used for slabs are usually restored and/or customized full-size GM vehicles (Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Buick or a restored Oldsmobile e.g Cutlass Delta 88) the slab culture is associated with Houston hip-hop musicians. This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it, Houston is a multicultural city with a thriving international community supported by the third largest concentration of consular offices in the United States representing 86 nations in addition to historical Southeast Texas culture Houston became the fourth-most populous city in the United States. Officially Houston is nicknamed the "Space City" as it is home to NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center where Mission Control Center is located "Houston" was the first word spoken on the moon. Many locals refer to Houston as "Bayou City." Other nicknames include "H-Town" "Clutch City" and "Magnolia City", As of April 2013 the state's unemployment rate is 6.4 percent. Harris County ESD #19 Fire Sheldon VFD .03, The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans)!