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Baseball is also popular in Texas. The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros are the two Texan teams in the Major League Baseball. At minor league baseball, Texas has three teams in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League and five in the Double-A Texas League. Another popular sport in Texas is golf, played year-round because of the South's humid climate.
At the 2010 census, Texas had a population of 25.1 million—an increase of 4.3 million since the year 2000, involving an increase in population in all three subcategories of population growth: natural increase (births minus deaths), net immigration, and net migration. Texas added almost 4 million people between the 2010 and 2020 census'. [9]
Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with over 31 million residents as of 2024, [5] it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic, the Republic of Texas. [10]
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio. The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande , and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico .
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (2004) Harkins, Anthony. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon Oxford University Press, 2004; Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, eds.South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. [4] Seats up for election will be all seats of the Texas Legislature, [5] all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is running for re-election. [6]
The rapid politicization of school board races across Texas has led to an infusion of money and personal attacks in elections that are ostensibly nonpartisan. Culture wars over race and sexuality ...
August 12 – New Jersey Governor James McGreevey announces that he is "a gay American" and will resign effective November 15, 2004. August 13 – Hurricane Charley kills 27 people in Florida , after killing four in Cuba and one in Jamaica .