Texas

Geography

With 696241 km ², Texas is wider than the Metropolitan France. Its capital is Austin. South-east is green and wet, and has a vegetation close to that of the Louisiana. The west is more Aride. Most of the State belongs to the natural whole of the Grandes Plains. Texas has some lakes like the Lake Austin.

Main cities

See also: List of the cities of Texas

History

Demography

The inhabitants of Texas, historically often known under the name of Texians , are designated now generally under the name of Texans . The Indians subjected to the white capacity texan called them " Tejans" , which was retransformé in " TEXANS".

In 2004, the State has a population of 22.490.022 inhabitants. The State has 3.450.500 residents born abroad (15,6% of the population of State), 1,2 million approximately are illegal foreigners (the illegal foreigners represent more than one third of the population abroad born in Texas and 5,4% of all the population of the State).

The population of the State increased by 5,5 million between 1990 and 2004 are a growth of 32,4%.

Policy

Texas is one of the most preserving States of the the United States. Historically, Texas was a State with sole party, that of the democratic one period which is spread out years 1870 until the years 1970-80. Since the years 1990, it became a bastion of the Republican party. The president George W. Bush is the craftsman of this republican conquest, carried out whereas it was governor of Texas between 1995 and 2001.

The November 8th 2005, the voters of Texas massively approved the creation of a constitutional law prohibiting the Homosexual marriage (70% of the votes). Texas is the State nineteenth of the Union to adopt such a constitutional law.

A new republican bastion with the presidential elections

Heritage of the American Civil War, Texas was strongly hostile to the republicans since the years 1870.

In 1928, Herbert Hoover was the first republican candidate to carry the State.

Until 1980, only the other republicans to have gained Texas were Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and Richard Nixon in 1972.

In 1964, it is a democrat texan, Lyndon Johnson, which carries it largely on the conservative Barry Goldwater.

With Jimmy Carter, the year 1976 mark last victory of a democratic candidate in this State.

Since 1980 and the preserving Revolution of Ronald Reagan, the republican candidates always could count on Texas so that, in 2000, the democratic candidate held no meeting to with it whereas many local democrats supported the republican candidate, the governor of Texas, George W. Bush.

At the time of the presidential election of 2004, president George W. Bush obtained there 61,09% of the voices compared with 38,22% with the democratic candidate John Kerry. The republican candidate carried it in particular in the urban districts of Dallas and Houston, whereas the majority of the urban areas of the country chose the democratic candidate. Only the capital Austin and the city with strong Hispanic minority of El Paso vote regularly democratic.

A republican bastion confirmed with the local plan

Since December 2000, the governor of Texas is the republican Rick Perry. It succeeded in the course of mandate with George W. Bush, then elected President of the United States. Rick Perry is the third republican governor of Texas in a little more than one hundred of years but also since 1979. All the other elected stations of the executive are held by republicans at the time of the session 2005 - 2006. In fact, since 1994, no democrat carried an election for a station of the executive texan.

The legislature of Texas is composed of a room of the representatives of 150 members and of a senate of 31 members, both dominated since recently by the republicans. At the time of the legislature 2007-2008, the Lower House is controlled by 81 republicans vis-a-vis 69 democrats and the senate by 20 republicans vis-a-vis 11 democrats.

A preserving and republican national representation

At the federal level, at the time of the legislature 2007-2008, Texas is represented with the Congrès of the United States by the two Republican senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn whereas 13 democrats and 19 republicans represent the State with the room of the representatives.

The capital punishment

Many Governmental organizations (ONG) worries about the practice about the Capital punishment largely approved in the State and about the prison policy which is carried out there.

One can obtain off statistics from Department Criminal Justice. The principal center of execution is the prison of Huntsville.

With him only, this State of the American south proceeded to more of the third of the executions carried out to the United States since the Supreme court authorized the re-establishment of the capital punishment in 1976, and to nearly two thirds in 2007.

To note: 446 people waited into 2001 their execution (see the article Capital punishment in the United States).

Economy

Agriculture

The economic prosperity of Texas was initially founded by the breeding. The breeding texan formed of the thousands of Cow-boy S. the incomes of the breeding and of agriculture are as important as those of oil.

Oil and energy

The oil reservoirs are numerous in Texas particularly in the permian basin in the west of the état.
Le Texas is one of the most productive areas of the United States, with the Alaska, the California, the Rocheuses as well as the Oklahoma. The hydrocarbons are the base of an important petrochemical industry. Refining capacity is the first of the country.

Texas counts several nuclear plants: one of them, the South Texas Project , located at 150 km of Houston, has two nuclear reactors of 1.264 megawatts.

Houston is the capital of energy and account of the hundreds of head offices of companies related to the secteur.
Exxon Mobil has its seat with Irving close to Dallas.

Culture

Texans like to lead quickly; speed limits on highways in Western Texas were high to 80 mi/h (129 km/h) in 2005.
In 1996 Texas was classified with the 22nd rank in the rate of died by Firearm, with a rate of 13,64%. In 1996 the national rate of died by firearm was of 12,94% (Violence Policy Center, http://www.vpc.org/press/9909tex.htm.) the majority of the guns had by the private ones are kept at the house, not carried in the street.
Texans make fun readily of themselves and their reputation of Chauvinisme. In 1945, for example, a newspaper texan titrated: “The army texane crushes the Nazi Germany”, followed by a tiny complement of title: “with the assistance of some detachments of the Union”.

Sport

(MLB) Houston Astros
(MLB) Texas Rangers
(MLS) FC Dallas
(MLS) Houston Dynamo
(NHL) Stars of Dallas
(NBA) Dallas Mavericks
(NBA) Houston Rockets
(NBA) San Antonio Spurs
(NFL) Dallas Cowboys
(NFL) Houston Texans

External bonds

Official site of the State of tourist Texas
Official site of Texas

Travis' Appeal for Aid At the Alamo (1836)
Ordinance off Secession 2 February, 1861
USA-Discovery-Texas

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