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History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion, 6 Biota Black church 6 Spring Valley Village The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering" a group of Democratic legislators the "Texas Eleven" fled the state in a quorum-busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting but was unsuccessful the state had already redistricted following the 2000 census Despite these efforts the legislature passed a map heavily in favor of Republicans based on 2000 data and ignoring the estimated nearly one million new residents in the state since that date Career attorneys and analysts at the Department of Justice objected to the plan as diluting the votes of African American and Hispanic voters but political appointees overrode them and approved it. Legal challenges to the redistricting reached the national Supreme Court in the case League of United Latin American Citizens v Perry (2006) but the court ruled in favor of the state (and Republicans). 2000 to present-day Map highlighting counties of Deep East Texas 2 ConocoPhillips 4 The front of a brick building; the top of the building appears torn off Around the arched doorway are four niches now empty There are two small square windows; . 5.2.1 Political history White Oak Bayou a major tributary of the Buffalo has its source in Jersey Village and travels 25 miles (40 km) southeast through Inwood Forest Oak Forest and the Houston Heights Brays Bayou another major tributary to the south originates near Mission Bend and travels 31 miles (50 km) through Alief Sharpstown Meyerland Braeswood Place the Texas Medical Center Riverside Terrace and the East End before meeting Buffalo Bayou at Harrisburg, The Museum of East Texas opened in Lufkin in 1976 under the name Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center, Nazi Germany was responsible for the Holocaust (killing approximately 6 million Jews) as well as for killing 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" (including the disabled and mentally ill Soviet prisoners of war Romani homosexuals Freemasons and Jehovah's Witnesses) as part of a programme of deliberate extermination in effect becoming a "genocidal state". Soviet POWs were kept in especially unbearable conditions and 3.6 million Soviet POWs out of 5.7 died in Nazi camps during the war in addition to concentration camps death camps were created in Nazi Germany to exterminate people at an industrial scale Nazi Germany extensively used forced labourers; about 12 million Europeans from German occupied countries were abducted and used as a slave work force in German industry agriculture and war economy. ; 10 Retail The situation reached a general crisis in late August as German troops continued to mobilise against the Polish border in August 23 when tripartite negotiations about a military alliance between France the United Kingdom and Soviet Union stalled the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. This pact had a secret protocol that defined German and Soviet "spheres of influence" (western Poland and Lithuania for Germany; eastern Poland Finland Estonia Latvia and Bessarabia for the Soviet Union) and raised the question of continuing Polish independence the pact neutralized the possibility of Soviet opposition to a campaign against Poland and assured that Germany would not have to face the prospect of a two-front war as it had in World War I Immediately after that Hitler ordered the attack to proceed on 26 August but upon hearing that the United Kingdom had concluded a formal mutual assistance pact with Poland and that Italy would maintain neutrality he decided to delay it.

During its recent history Houston has flooded several times from heavy rainfall which has been becoming increasingly common. This has been exacerbated by a lack of zoning laws which allowed unregulated building of residential homes and other structures in flood-prone areas. During the floods in 2015 and 2016 each of which dropped at least a foot of rain parts of the city were covered in several inches of water. Even worse flooding happened in late August 2017 when Hurricane Harvey stalled over southeastern Texas much like Tropical Storm Allison did sixteen years earlier causing severe flooding in the Houston area with some areas receiving over 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain the rainfall exceeded 50 inches in several areas locally breaking the national record for rainfall the damage for the Houston area is estimated at up to $125 billion U.S dollars and it is considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States with the death toll exceeding 70 people on January 31 2018 the Houston City Council agreed to forgive large water bills thousands of households faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey as Houston Public Works found 6,362 homeowners' water utility bills had at least doubled. Car culture is often celebrated by residents especially during the annual Art Car Parade where many uniquely modified cars are paraded through the Heights neighborhood Another car culture celebrated in Houston is the slab culture usually found in Houston's inner city neighborhoods (including former Houston-area suburban communities e.g South Park Sunnyside Acres Homes and enclaves in Missouri City) the cars used for slabs are usually restored and/or customized full-size GM vehicles (Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Buick or a restored Oldsmobile e.g Cutlass Delta 88) the slab culture is associated with Houston hip-hop musicians, Texas Southern University located in the Third Ward is the first public institution of higher education in Houston and the largest HBCU in Texas, Stafford (mostly in Fort Bend County). Tagalog 0.29% Aldine Native Americans are a smaller minority in the state Native Americans make up 0.5 percent of Texas's population and number over 118,000 individuals Native Americans of non-Hispanic origin make up 0.3 percent of the population and number over 75,000 individuals Cherokee made up 0.1 percent of the population and numbered over 19,400 members in contrast only 583 identified as Chippewa.