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. . 1870 17,375 91.6% Mainline Protestant 13 4.2 United States Congress, Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state. The bicameral Texas Legislature consists of the House of Representatives with 150 members and a Senate with 31 members the Speaker of the House leads the House and the lieutenant governor the Senate the Legislature meets in regular session biennially for just over 100 days but the governor can call for special sessions as often as desired (notably the Legislature cannot call itself into session) the state's fiscal year spans from the previous calendar year's September 1 to the current year's August 31 Thus the FY 2015 dates from September 1 2014 through August 31 2015. .

Austin the Live Music Capital of the World boasts "more live music venues per capita than such music hotbeds as Nashville Memphis Los Angeles Las Vegas or New York City" the city's music revolves around the nightclubs on 6th Street; events like the film music and multimedia festival South by Southwest; the longest-running concert music program on American television Austin City Limits; and the Austin City Limits Music Festival held in Zilker Park; From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch set up more permanently in the Nordeste and controlled a long stretch of the coast most accessible to Europe without however penetrating the interior But the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege in spite of the presence in Recife of John Maurice of Nassau as governor After several years of open warfare the Dutch formally withdrew in 1661, The Allies established occupation administrations in Austria and Germany the former became a neutral state non-aligned with any political bloc the latter was divided into western and eastern occupation zones controlled by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union a denazification programme in Germany led to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials and the removal of ex-Nazis from power although this policy moved towards amnesty and re-integration of ex-Nazis into West German society; Geography Various companies are headquartered in incorporated and unincorporated areas throughout Harris County, The first Texas Legislature declined to ratify the treaty Houston had signed with the Cherokee declaring he had no authority to make any promises. Although the Texian interim governments had vowed to eventually compensate citizens for goods that were impressed during the war efforts for the most part livestock and horses were not returned. Veterans were guaranteed land bounties; in 1879 surviving Texian veterans who served more than three months from October 1 1835 through January 1 1837 were guaranteed an additional 1,280 acres (520 ha) in public lands. Over 1.3 million acres (559 thousand ha) of land were granted; some of this was in Greer County which was later determined to be part of Oklahoma. The Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research a think tank has described Greater Houston as "one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metropolitan areas in the country". Houston's diversity fueled by large waves of immigrants has been attributed to its relatively low cost of living strong job market proximity to Latin America and role as a hub for refugee resettlement a 2012 Kinder Institute report found that based on the evenness of population distribution between the four major racial groups in the United States (non-Hispanic white non-Hispanic black Hispanic or Latino and Asian) Greater Houston was the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States ahead of New York City in 2017 according to the U.S Census Bureau non-Hispanic whites made up 24.9% of the population of Houston proper Hispanics or Latinos 44.5% Blacks or African Americans 22.9% and Asians 6.7%.