It would authorize the Texas Education Agency to establish county-wide day schools for the deaf in counties of 300,000 or more population, require deaf children between 6 and 13 years of age to attend the day schools, permitting older ones to attend the residential Texas School for the Deaf here.

A study from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, however, found there was no indication of population decline, and suggested, as pelt prices were not increasing, the decrease in harvest was likely due to decreasing demand, and not increasing scarcity ( where pelt prices would go up.

Texas in particular has benefited tremendously from this industry over the course of the 20th century and economic diversification has made the state a magnet for population and home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other U. S. state.

The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.

New Mexico, along with Hawaii, California and Texas, is a minority-majority state, that is, a state where non-Hispanic whites represent less than half of the population.

It should be noted, however, that white-tailed deer were largely absent from the last wild refuge of red wolves on the Gulf Coast between Texas and Louisiana ( where specimens were trapped from the last wild population for captive breeding ), which likely accounts for the discrepancy in their dietary habits listed here.

According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 180 in 2000.

In the Gulf of Mexico, along the coast of Texas, research indicates the flounder population could be as low as 15 million due to heavy overfishing and industrial pollution.

Galveston is the seat and second-largest city ( after League City, Texas ) of Galveston County in population.

In accordance with the act, several states, " seven of the eleven southern states of the former confederacy " – Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia — were subjected to the procedure of preclearance in 1965, while Texas, home to the majority of the African American population at the time, followed in 1975.

California and Texas are the most populous states, as the mean center of United States population has consistently shifted westward and southward.

Zapata County is estimated to be the eleventh fastest growing county (+ 15. 8 %) in the state of Texas since the year 2000 ( based on % of population change ).

By 1970, the oil industry had experienced a decline in West Texas, and the population in Winkler County dropped to 9, 640.

A map commissioned in the 1860s and distributed by the United States Army for the benefit of wounded troops indicates that, based on data from the 1860 national census, 80. 9 % of the population of Wharton County was enslaved, representing the highest portion of slaves in a single county in the state of Texas.

As of 2000, it had the lowest population density for all counties in East Texas.

As of 2000, it had the second lowest population density for all counties in East Texas, behind only Red River County, and the lowest population density in Deep East Texas.

King County has the third smallest population of any county in the United States, ranking behind only Loving County, Texas, and Kalawao County, Hawaii.

Kenedy County has the distinction of having the fourth-lowest population of any county in the United States, following Loving County, Texas, Kalawao County, Hawaii, and King County, Texas.

Of the nine Texas counties having only one school apiece, the population of Sarita Elementary School was the smallest.

The population density was 19 people per square mile ( 7 / km² ); it had the second lowest population density for all counties in Deep East Texas, behind only Newton County.

Needing cash, the Bidwills began entertaining offers from would-be investors, and one of the men who approached the Bidwills was Lamar Hunt, son and heir of Texas millionaire oilman H. L. Hunt.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Wills soon settled the renamed Texas Playboys in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50, 000 watt KVOO radio station.

After leaving the Army in 1943 Wills moved to Hollywood, moving into a rented house in September, and began to reorganize the Texas Playboys.

Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.

The Cowboys ' streak of 160 sold-out regular and post-season games began in 1990, and included 79 straight sellouts at their former home, Texas Stadium, and 81 straight sell-outs on the road.

In 2000, Walt Disney, Texas Instruments and Technicolor with the cooperation of several U. S. and international exhibitors, began to deploy prototype Digital Cinema systems in commercial theatres.

In June 2009, Brockovich began investigating a case of contaminated water in Midland, Texas.

After a particularly dispiriting performance in Nacogdoches, Texas, Julius, Milton, and Arthur began cracking jokes onstage for their own amusement.

On the morning of January 10, 1901, the little hill south of Beaumont, Texas began to tremble and mud bubbled up over the rotary table.

The plight of U. S. Route 66 in particular, whose disappearance from the map in 1985 turned places like Glenrio, Texas and Amboy, California into overnight ghost towns, began to capture public attention with Route 66 associations springing up in every state as concern over preservation of decaying motels and other roadside infrastructure of the neon era came into view.

In 1835, when President Antonio López de Santa Anna abolished the Constitution of 1824, granting himself enormous powers over the government, wary colonists in Texas began forming Committees of Correspondence and Safety.

The Texas Revolution officially began on October 2, 1835, in the Battle of Gonzales.

The requirement began on September 1, 2001, when the State of Texas passed a law to require all law enforcement agencies in the State to begin collecting certain data in connection to traffic or pedestrian stops beginning on January 1, 2002.

Additionally, on January 1, 2011, all law enforcement agencies began submitting annual reports to the Texas State Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education Commission.

Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.

Orbison also began collaborating with Bill Dees, whom he had known in Texas.

Sosa's Major League career began with the Texas Rangers in.

" If Psycho began an exploration of a new sense of absurdity in contemporary life, of the collapse of causality and the diseased underbelly of American Gothic ", he writes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " carries this exploration to a logical conclusion, addressing many of the issues of Hitchcock's film while refusing comforting closure ".

But when Texas lost its last game before the players ' strike began, the Oakland A's won the A. L.

By 1844, the Whigs began their recovery by nominating Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion ( particularly the annexation of Texas ) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.

The idea of a World Series of Poker began in 1969 with an event called the Texas Gambling Reunion.

Some even today claim this treaty did not include Texas, over the annexation of which the quarrel began.