United States presidential election in Texas 2016 District 29 Sylvia Garcia Democratic 2018 Aldine Channelview East Houston Fall Creek portion of Humble Galena Park Jacinto City northern Pasadena North Shore western Sheldon South Houston; Pop District 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 1994 Downtown Houston Bush IAH northwest and northeast Houston inner portions of Houston's Southside, The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the older slave states Sizable numbers however came through the domestic slave trade New Orleans was the center of this trade in the Deep South but slave dealers were in Houston Thousands of enslaved blacks lived near the city before the American Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs!
. Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest group in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans Over 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latino ethnicity This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million and make up 31.6 percent of the population the vast majority of the Hispanic/Latino population in the state is of Mexican descent the next two largest groups are Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans There are over 222,000 Salvadorans and over 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Texas Other groups with large numbers in Texas include Hondurans Guatemalans Nicaraguans and Cubans among others the Hispanics in Texas are more likely than in some other states (such as California) to identify as white; according to the 2010 U.S Census Texas is home to 6,304,207 White Hispanics and 2,594,206 Hispanics of "some other race" (usually mestizo), Within Mexico tensions continued between federalists and centralists in early 1835 wary Texians formed Committees of Correspondence and Safety the unrest erupted into armed conflict in late 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next two months the Texians defeated all Mexican troops in the region. Texians elected delegates to the Consultation which created a provisional government the provisional government soon collapsed from infighting and Texas was without clear governance for the first two months of 1836, Houston Texas Business Directory. A graph showing the major sectors of the Houston economy 137 Gene Wu Democratic 2013 Southwest Houston (including Sharpstown and Gulfton) In December southward-moving cold fronts can bring cold rain low wind chills and rarely frozen precipitation Early January is the coldest time of the year with temperatures moderating slightly by February Winter is also the driest part of the year for Houston. . . The Kellum-Noble House in a 1936 photograph, San Antonio 96/74 35/23 63/40 17/5 Houston Texas Business Directory; The Community Services Department provides community services the department maintains the 20 acres (8.1 ha) Oates Road Cemetery (also known as the Harris County Cemetery) for indigents in eastern Houston near the former Southern Bible College in March 2010 the county adopted a cremation first policy meaning that the default preference for most indigents is to have them cremated instead of buried As of 2010 the county authorized the Community Services Department to purchase about 50 acres (20 ha) of land in the Huffman area so the county will have additional spaces for indigent burials. 10 Footnotes Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey 68 percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats About 62 percent of Hispanics (of any race) in the area are declared or favor Democrats the city has often been known to be the most politically diverse city in Texas a state known for being generally conservative. As a result the city is often a contested area in statewide elections in 2009 Houston became the first U.S city with a population over 1 million citizens to elect a gay mayor by electing Annise Parker.
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