1930 292,352 111.4% Main article: Sports in Houston. . . 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. Astronaut training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Census-designated places, Main article: Mexican Texas 1920s Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one that was 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.
Prevailing winds are from the south and southeast during most of the year which bring heat and moisture from the nearby Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay, 8 Mythic lands 115 Plains GP Holdings The Uptown District located on Interstate 610 West (referred to locally as the "West Loop") between U.S Highway 59 and Interstate 10 boomed along with Houston during the 1970s and early 1980s During that time the area grew from farm land in the late 1960s to a collection of high-rise office buildings residential properties and retail establishments including the Houston Galleria the area is an example of what architectural theorists call the edge city in the late 1990s Uptown Houston saw construction of many mid- and high-rise residential buildings of the tallest being about 30 stories. . . . Boom periods of the four major industries that built the early Texas economy, Media Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland Much of the city was built on marshes forested land swamp or prairie all of which can still be seen in surrounding areas, Unlike Dallas Houston is not in Tornado Alley; however smaller tornadoes can occur during severe weather They are most likely to be found along frontal boundaries of an air mass during the spring months Tornadoes in Houston usually measure a weak F1 on the older Fujita scale and cause light to moderate damage to well-constructed buildings the strongest recorded tornado in Houston history was an F4 on November 21 1992 part of a large outbreak of tornadoes in Harris County. .
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