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Rates of infant mortality, Katy 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, Earlier 20th century Houston Texas Business Directory 5 West Texas: Comancheria. . . .

Contents (27.1) 71.2 11 Transportation Since 1980 most Texas voters have supported Republican presidential candidates in 2000 and 2004 Republican George W Bush won Texas with respectively 59.3 and 60.1 percent of the vote partly due to his "favorite son" status as a former governor of the state John McCain won the state in 2008 but with a smaller margin of victory compared to Bush at 55 percent of the vote Austin Dallas Houston and San Antonio consistently lean Democratic in both local and statewide elections. ! Main article: Spanish Texas Around 2006 Taiwanese people became owners of several independent and small chain hotels in the Houston area in December 2006 C.Y Ling the director of the commercial division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston said that Taiwanese owned more hotels than any other ethnic group except for the Indians, Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Americas in 1492 Economic and demographic change. . Harris County ESD #20 Fire Northwest FD 1% .10 (17) 63 In the 2000s the Baylor College of Medicine was annually considered within the top ten medical schools in the nation; likewise the MD Anderson Cancer Center had been consistently ranked as one of the top two U.S hospitals specializing in cancer care by U.S News & World Report since 1990 the Menninger Clinic a psychiatric treatment center is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Hospital System. With hospital locations nationwide and headquarters in Houston the Triumph Healthcare hospital system was the third largest long term acute care provider nationally in 2005.