. 4.2 Difficulties with the Native Americans 8 External links February 12 1960: 4.4 inches (11 cm) of snow 4.4 Axis attack on the Soviet Union (1941). . 1.1 Houston's turbulent beginning 6.1 Scoreboard Japanese prisoner-of-war camps many of which were used as labour camps also had high death rates the International Military Tribunal for the Far East found the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1 per cent (for American POWs 37 per cent) seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. While 37,583 prisoners from the UK 28,500 from the Netherlands and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan the number of Chinese released was only 56. . County Judge Lina Hidalgo Democratic Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas (METRO) serves several areas within Harris County an agency of the Harris County government Harris County Transit serves communities in Harris County that are not served by METRO. Buddhist 1 10 Retail, 4.4 Statehood This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), 13 See also Other famous and notable East Texans.
The state's conservative white voters began to support Republican presidential candidates by the mid-20th century After this period they supported Republicans for local and state offices as well and most whites became Republican Party members the party also attracted some minorities but many have continued to vote for Democratic candidates the shift to the Republican Party is much-attributed to the fact the Democratic Party became increasingly liberal during the 20th century and thus increasingly out-of-touch with the average Texas voter as Texas was always a conservative state voters switched to the GOP which now more closely reflected their beliefs. Commentators have also attributed the shift to Republican political consultant Karl Rove who managed numerous political campaigns in Texas in the 1980s and 1990s. Other stated reasons included court-ordered redistricting and the demographic shift in relation to the Sun Belt that favored the Republican Party and conservatism. The 2010 United States Census reported that Houston had a population of 2,100,263 residents in 2017 the census-estimated population rose to 2,312,717 and in 2018 to 2,325,502 an estimated 600,000 undocumented immigrants reside in the Houston area comprising nearly 9% of the city's metropolitan population. Preterm Baby in Incubator, Asian Americans are a sizable minority group in Texas Americans of Asian descent form 3.8 percent of the population with those of non-Hispanic descent making up 3.7 percent of the populace They total more than 808,000 individuals Non-Hispanic Asians number over 795,000 Just over 200,000 Indian Americans make Texas their home Texas is also home to over 187,000 Vietnamese and 136,000 Chinese in addition to 92,000 Filipinos and 62,000 Koreans there are 18,000 Japanese Americans living in the state Lastly over 111,000 people are of other Asian ancestry groups such as Cambodian Thai and Hmong Sugar Land a city within the Houston metropolitan area and Plano within the Dallas metropolitan area both have high concentrations of ethnic Chinese and Korean residents the Houston and Dallas areas and to a lesser extent the Austin metropolitan area all contain substantial Vietnamese communities, Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts. Houston Texas Business Directory Afonso de Albuquerque. 14 References Atheist 2 1940 528,961 47.2% Austin 97/74 36/23 61/45 16/5 See also: List of Houston rappers From the 8th century the bow and arrow appeared in the region manufacture of pottery developed and Native Americans increasingly depended on bison for survival Obsidian objects found in various Texan sites attest of trade with cultures in present-day Mexico and the Rocky Mountains as the material is not found locally. . Main article: 2006 Gulf of Mexico earthquake 4.6 Earlier 20th century 1.5 Recent history 142 Harold Dutton Jr. Democratic 1984 East Houston and Northshore area. .
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