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. 5.3 South America Non-Christian faiths 4 See also: Economy of Houston Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape. . . Houmont Park Brownsville 94/76 34/24 70/51 21/11 Tennis 7.1 Primary and secondary schools Several school districts serve Harris County communities Among the 26 districts are: Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world and the rate by which Texas women died from pregnancy related complications doubled from 2010 to 2014 to 23.8 per 100,000 a rate unmatched in any other U.S state or economically developed country. See Maternal healthcare in Texas!

. ! 270 EOG Resources Friendswood (mostly in Galveston County) (17.4) 53.5 489 Cheniere Energy Bridgeland Author James W Corder wrote in Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change that he adhered to the said prepositions no matter how far away a place was John Nova Lomax of Texas Monthly stated that he typically did not adhere to the prepositions for more distant cities of about 100 miles (160 km) and/or at least about one to two hours driving distance away especially in regards to east-west travel (for example to the state of Louisiana the city of New Orleans and San Antonio) while he continued to use the prepositions for further-out places to the north and south (such as Corpus Christi Dallas and the Rio Grande Valley). Houston has a franchise in nearly every major professional sports league including: Houston Dynamo (MLS) Houston Astros (MLB) Houston Rockets (NBA) Houston Comets (Now Defunct)(WNBA) Houston Aeros (Now Defunct) (AHL) Houston Texans (NFL) and Houston Dash (National Women's Soccer League). In 1901 the Democratic-dominated state legislature passed a bill requiring payment of a poll tax for voting which effectively disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites and Latinos in addition the legislature established white primaries ensuring minorities were excluded from the formal political process the number of voters dropped dramatically and the Democrats crushed competition from the Republican and Populist parties the Socialist Party became the second-largest party in Texas after 1912 coinciding with a large socialist upsurge in the United States during fierce battles in the labor movement and the popularity of national heroes like Eugene V Debs the Socialists' popularity soon waned after their vilification by the United States government for their opposition to US involvement in World War I, The Kinder Institute's Houston Survey in 2018 found that from 2014 through 2018 the number of Houston residents who supported adoption of children by same-sex couples climbed above 50% and remained there while in 2017 over 56% of residents reported gay or lesbian persons among their circle of close personal friends a 2013 opinion poll had found that 46% of Harris County residents supported same-sex marriage up from 37% in 2001 Just above 82% favored offering illegal immigrants a path to citizenship provided they speak English and have no criminal record holding from 83% in 2013 which was up from 19% in 2009 in 2013 87% supported background checks for all firearms the latest year that question was included in the Kinder Houston Survey This measure has moved up steadily from 60% in 1985 to 69% in 2000, 12 Further reading 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". Three loop freeways provide north-south and east-west connectivity between Greater Houston's radial highways the innermost loop is Interstate 610 commonly known as the Inner Loop which encircles Downtown the Texas Medical Center Greenway Plaza the cities of West University Place and Southside Place and many core neighborhoods the 88-mile (142 km) State Highway Beltway 8 often referred to as the Beltway forms the middle loop at a radius of roughly 10 miles (16 km) a third 180-mile (290 km) loop with a radius of approximately 25 miles (40 km) State Highway 99 (the Grand Parkway) is currently under construction with six of eleven segments completed as of 2018. Completed segments D through G provide a continuous 70.4-mile (113.3 km) limited-access tollway connection between Sugar Land Katy Cypress Spring and Porter.