14 Further reading Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one 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. ; . ; Harvey (2017) Other race 0.4% 10.6% 11.7% 10.5% Houston is the tenth largest television market in the United States While Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States other cities that are smaller than Houston have metropolitan region that are larger than Houston's.
4 Government and politics 8.3 Intercity buses Chambers (east) 9.1 Unionism Write-in Various candidates Various candidates 51,261 0.57% 0 Ruins of the Benedictine monastery during the Battle of Monte Cassino Italian Campaign May 1944. . 13 See also Background Protestant 50 Galveston Bay Houston circa 1873 Houston Texas Business Directory United Kingdom home front. The Pueblo from the upper Rio Grande region centered west of Texas; As with other parts of Texas and/or the South other popular sporting activities in East Texas include rodeo (including PRCA) hunting and fishing Prominent rodeos in East Texas are held in Beaumont Nacogdoches Paris Longview Gladewater Huntsville Lufkin Athens Palestine Lindale etc East Texas contains several award-winning lakes for sport fishing including Toledo Bend Reservoir Lake Sam Rayburn Lake Livingston Lake Fork Reservoir Lake Tawakoni etc East Texans have a long tradition in outdoors sporting and observe the opening day of deer season as a near religious holiday. By 1913 twelve oil companies had located themselves in Houston most notably Humble Oil Company which is now ExxonMobil Howard Hughes was born in Humble Texas where the oil company started President Woodrow Wilson opened the Port of Houston in 1914 74 years after the digging started Service started with the Satilla a ship that ran from Houston to New York New York World War I put the gasoline-combustible automobile into widespread use causing oil to become a precious commodity However the war caused the amount of tonnage arriving in the Port to drop After the war the rice business fell flat causing many Japanese-Americans to find other work or to move out of Texas. ; Diesel particulate matter (DPM) - cancer Tall symmetrical glass skyscraper with triangular peak and setbacks that narrow the building as it rises a chevron design under the top seems to be pushed upward by a long thin arrow. Academy Sports and Outdoors a sporting goods retailer has its corporate offices and product distribution center in unincorporated western Harris County. Hewlett-Packard operates its United States region office in a complex northwest unincorporated Harris County; the complex formerly belonged to Compaq prior to Compaq's merger with HP. Smith International has its headquarters in the Greenspoint district and in an unincorporated area in Harris County. BJ Services Company has its headquarters in the Spring Branch district and in unincorporated Harris County. Cybersoft Technologies has its headquarters in an unincorporated area in 2012 Noble Energy announced that it was consolidating its headquarters and two other Greater Houston offices into a 10-story building on the former Compaq headquarters property in unincorporated Harris County. Goya Foods previously had its Texas offices in an unincorporated area in the county, 4 Brandon Creighton Republican 2014 Kingwood far eastern portions of Baytown, In total 34.2% (7,660,406) of Texas's population aged five and older spoke a language at home other than English.
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