, By mid-November the Germans had nearly taken Stalingrad in bitter street fighting the Soviets began their second winter counter-offensive starting with an encirclement of German forces at Stalingrad and an assault on the Rzhev salient near Moscow though the latter failed disastrously by early February 1943 the German Army had taken tremendous losses; German troops at Stalingrad had been forced to surrender and the front-line had been pushed back beyond its position before the summer offensive in mid-February after the Soviet push had tapered off the Germans launched another attack on Kharkov creating a salient in their front line around the Soviet city of Kursk, Hurricanes and tropical storms Nagasaki in Japan was founded in 1570 by Portuguese explorers. ; . . . . Determined to control politics in the state reduce competition from Republicans and Populists and close blacks out of politics in 1901 the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a poll tax as a requirement for voting Given the economic difficulties of the times the poll tax caused participation by African Americans poor whites and Mexican Americans to drop sharply effectively disenfranchising more than one-third of the population of the state, As of the 2010 Census the population of the county was 4,092,459 White Americans made up 56.6% of Harris County's population; non-Hispanic whites represented 33.0% of the population Black Americans made up 25.9% of the population Native Americans made up 0.7% of Harris County's population Asian Americans made up 6.2% of the population (2.0% Vietnamese 1.2% Indian 1.1% Chinese 0.6% Filipino 0.3% Korean 0.1% Japanese 1.0% Other) Pacific Islander Americans made up just 0.1% of the population Individuals from other races made up 14.3% of the population; people from two or more races made up 3.2% of the county's population Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) made up 40.8% of Harris County's population As of the 2010 census there were about 6.2 same-sex couples per 1,000 households in the county.
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