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East Texans also enjoy collegiate athletic competition Most residents support collegiate teams located in other regions of the state; the Texas A&M Aggies Texas Longhorns Texas Tech Red Raiders Baylor Bears TCU Horned Frogs etc Due to proximity to neighboring states East Texas has a substantial number of fans of the LSU Tigers Arkansas Razorbacks Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners the Battle of the Piney Woods is a fiercely contested sports rivalry between the Bearkats of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and the Lumberjacks of Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches Both compete in the FCS level of NCAA athletic competition as members of the Southland Conference the Cardinals of Lamar University in Beaumont also compete with Stephen F Austin and Sam Houston State in the Southland Conference, Barbara Jordan was elected to the US House of Representatives by Houston residents on November 8 1966. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths a quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed. Germany sustained 5.3 million military losses mostly on the Eastern Front and during the final battles in Germany, Houston City Hall, 1920 186,667 61.3% Houston Texas Business Directory Western view of the Downtown Houston skyline in 2010. . The second president of the Republic of Texas Mirabeau B Lamar is the Father of Texas Education During his term the state set aside three leagues of land in each county for equipping public schools an additional 50 leagues of land set aside for the support of two universities would later become the basis of the state's Permanent University Fund. Lamar's actions set the foundation for a Texas-wide public school system. Between 2006 and 2007 Texas spent $7,275 per pupil ranking it below the national average of $9,389 the pupil/teacher ratio was 14.9 below the national average of 15.3 Texas paid instructors $41,744 below the national average of $46,593 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) administers the state's public school systems Texas has over 1,000 school districts; all districts except the Stafford Municipal School District are independent from municipal government and many cross city boundaries. School districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent domain over privately owned property Due to court-mandated equitable school financing for school districts the state has a controversial tax redistribution system called the "Robin Hood plan" This plan transfers property tax revenue from wealthy school districts to poor ones the TEA has no authority over private or home school activities. Democratic Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine 3,877,868 43.24% 0 World War II had a dramatic impact on Texas as federal money poured in to build military bases munitions factories POW detention camps and Army hospitals; 750,000 young men left for service; the cities exploded with new industry; the colleges took on new roles; and hundreds of thousands of poor farmers left the fields for much better paying war jobs never to return to agriculture. Texas manufactured 3.1 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II ranking eleventh among the 48 states, The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl dealt a double blow to the state's economy which had significantly improved since the Civil War Migrants abandoned the worst hit sections of Texas during the Dust Bowl years Especially from this period on blacks left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape the oppression of segregation in 1940 Texas was 74 percent Anglo 14.4 percent black and 11.5 percent Hispanic. .

. Astrodome interior in 2004 Petty bickering between Smith and the Council members increased dramatically and on January 9 1836 Smith threatened to dismiss the Council unless they agreed to revoke their approval of the Matamoros Expedition. Two days later the Council voted to impeach Smith and named James W Robinson the Acting Governor it was unclear whether either side actually had the authority to dismiss the other by this point Texas was essentially in anarchy. . (-8) 29 Alief (Partially annexed by Houston partially unincorporated) 7 Pollution La Porte Municipal Airport in La Porte. .