16.3 Ethnicity and minorities Niels Esperson Building, Energy Black-and-white drawing of a man shown from mid-chest up He is wearing a military jacket with a high collar, Pre-war events Climate The space shuttle atop its Boeing 747 flying over NASA's Johnson Space Center. Main article: Economy of Houston In contrast to the cities unincorporated rural settlements known as colonias often lack basic infrastructure and are marked by poverty the office of the Texas Attorney General stated in 2011 that Texas had about 2,294 colonias and estimates about 500,000 lived in the colonias Hidalgo County as of 2011 has the largest number of colonias. Texas has the largest number of people of all states living in colonias.
. . . Migration Piney Point Village Animals Texas has a reputation of very harsh criminal punishment for criminal offenses It is one of the 32 states that practice capital punishment and since the US Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976 40% of all US executions have taken place in Texas as of 2008 Texas had the 4th highest incarceration rate in the US. Texas also has strong self defense laws allowing citizens to use lethal force to defend themselves their families or their property. . Houston Texas Business Directory Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes the Mississippian culture also known as Mound Builders which extended along the Mississippi River Valley east of Texas; and. . The Williams Waterwall is a multi-story sculptural fountain which sits at the south end of Williams Tower in Uptown it and its surrounding park were built as an architectural amenity to the adjacent tower. Both the fountain and tower were designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Philip Johnson. Completed in 1983 the semi-circular fountain is 64-foot (20 m) tall and sits among 118 Texas Live Oak trees Approximately 11,000 gallons of water per minute cascades down vast channeled sheets on both sides from the narrower top rim of the circle to the wider base below, 5 Environmental issues Americans with origins from the Pacific are the smallest minority in Texas According to the survey only 18,000 Texans are Pacific Islanders; 16,400 are of non-Hispanic descent There are roughly 5,400 Native Hawaiians 5,300 Guamanians and 6,400 people from other groups Samoan Americans were scant; only 2,920 people were from this group the city of Euless a suburb of Fort Worth contains a sizable population of Tongan Americans at nearly 900 people over one percent of the city's population Killeen has a sufficient population of Samoans and Guamanian and people of Pacific Islander descent surpass one percent of the city's population, The combined yearly sum spent by these agencies circa 2018 was $1.6 billion That year the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research released a report advocating for consolidating several of these agencies as a way of saving taxpayer money.
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