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Located centrally in North America the state is an important transportation hub From the Dallas/Fort Worth area trucks can reach 93 percent of the nation's population within 48 hours and 37 percent within 24 hours. Texas has 33 foreign trade zones (FTZ) the most in the nation in 2004 a combined total of $298 billion of goods passed through Texas FTZs, Main article: Technology during World War II, Consequences of obesity See also: Architecture of Houston. 1950 7,711,194 20.2% Stephen F Austin was the first American empresario given permission to operate a colony within Mexican Texas. . When Mexico was again threatening Texas President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston on June 27 1842 However the Austin residents wanted to keep the archives in their city This would be known as the Archive Wars the capital was then moved to Washington on-the-Brazos on September 29 Austin became capital again in 1845 just before Texas gained statehood, Main articles: Ordinance of Secession Confederate States of America and Texas in the American Civil War. (17.6) 70.9 1.4 Weather Seasonal observation According to Children at Risk a local nonprofit research organization 21% of the Harris County children live in poverty 6.5 per 1,000 die before age one and 38% drop out of high school. Movie theaters, Because Houston is on the Gulf of Mexico the city has a small chance of being hit by hurricanes or tropical storms every hurricane season (June through November), December 10 2008: Tied the earliest accumulating snowfall record.
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