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In 2000 of the 1,205,516 households 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them 50.6% were married couples living together 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present and 30.8% were not families About 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older the average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.38. . Houston Texas Business Directory, 2.3 Cityscape The coffee companies of Houston formed the Greater Houston Coffee Association in fall 2000 the industry then tried to make Houston a major coffee shipping port Coffee sold through futures contracts may only be shipped to a New York Board of Trade-certified port and Texas's ad valorem tax on warehouse inventories made it impossible for Houston to get such a certification the tax was written into the Constitution of Texas so the Greater Houston Coffee Association asked State Representative Joe E Moreno and State Senator Mario Gallegos to present a constitutional amendment bill to exempt cocoa and coffee stored in Harris County warehouses from the tax Voters approved the amendment in 2001 Since then Houston's role as a coffee port increased After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much of the traffic switched to Houston! . According to the 2010 United States census the racial composition of Texas was the following: Some other race: 10.5 percent. During the late 20th century the Republican Party replaced the Democratic Party as the dominant party in the state as the latter became more politically liberal and as demographic changes favored the former, The phrase is often used to describe the area appearing in a newspaper column in the Palestine Herald-Press and in tourist guide by Mike Dougan, Comprising a total area of 637.4 square miles (1,651 km2) Houston is the eighth most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties) It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county parish or borough Though primarily in Harris County small portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties bordering other principal communities of Greater Houston such as Sugar Land and the Woodlands.

. Bellaire Away from the coast the terrain begins to exhibit the rolling hills of East and Central Texas Toward Central Texas the mixed pine and hardwood forests give way to the East Central Texas forests of post oak and grasslands, Harris County elected officials Houston Texas Business Directory. 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. . German 0.33% Texas 3.svg State Highway 3 Main articles: Texas Revolution Convention of 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence Treaties of Velasco and Republic of Texas.