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Texas is the second largest state in size after Alaska and has historically been portrayed through larger than life Wild West cowboys and oil wells.

Texas was largely rural before World War II

with cattle and agriculture as its main industries.

After World War II, Texas has become increasingly industralized.

It's economy (circa 2000) is largely based on information technology, with DallasFort Worth being the largest IT

labor market in the United States, oil and natural gas, energy exploration and energy trading, agriculture, and manufacturing.

It passed New York in the 1990s to become the second largest state in population after California largely due to the availability of jobs, lack of a state income tax, low taxation of business, limited government (the state legislature of Texas meets only once every two years), good weather, and friendly people.

It was the only state in the United States to be a sovergin

nation before joing the United States. (? How does the kingom of Hawaii fit in?)

Austin is the state capital.

Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio are its largest cities.

Texas has a large immigrant population of mainly Spanish speaking

people from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Texas has been largely fortunate in avoiding the racial problems found in many southern states and large cities of the northeast.