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. . The Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA) is a governmental nonprofit corporation which addresses the need for quality affordable housing the HCHA has been recognized by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development as the highest performing housing authority in the region and was recently named one of America's 10 best Public Housing Authorities. Guy R Rankin IV is Chief Executive Officer of Harris County Housing Authority (HCHA). 6 Economy Spanish exploration Webster Sam Houston, The state's two most widely recognized flagship universities are the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University ranked as the 52nd and 69th best universities in the nation according to the 2014 edition of U.S News & World Report's "Best Colleges" respectively Some observers also include the University of Houston and Texas Tech University as tier one flagships alongside UT Austin and A&M the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) ranks the state's public universities into three distinct tiers:. Main article: Cuisine of Houston The mass-bombing of cities in Europe and Asia has often been called a war crime although no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II the USAAF firebombed a total of 67 Japanese cities killing 393,000 civilians and destroying 65% of built-up areas. . Cities towns and metropolitan areas In the 2014 Texas elections the Tea Party movement made large gains with numerous Tea Party favorites being elected into office including Dan Patrick as lieutenant governor Ken Paxton as attorney general in addition to numerous other candidates including conservative Republican Greg Abbott as governor, In early 1917 the War Department ordered two military installations to be built in Harris County: Camp Logan and Ellington Field the Army deployed a battalion of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment to guard the construction site at Camp Logan Racial tension in the city rose as the black soldiers received hostile treatment in the racially segregated city Tensions flared into a full-blown riot in August 1917; the Camp Logan Riot resulted in the deaths of 15 whites (including 4 policemen) and 4 black soldiers and scores of additional injuries!

Culturally Southeast Texas is more closely akin to the Gulf Coast Louisiana or even Mississippi than it is to West Texas Much of modern Southeast Texas culture has its roots in traditions that go back for generations Southeast Texas is consistent with much of the rest of rural Texas in that it is a part of the Bible Belt an area in which many inhabitants have strongly Fundamentalist Christian beliefs Many of the largest cities in East Texas outside Houston still follow a rural Southern way of life especially in dialect mannerisms religion and cuisine. Stephen F Austin was the first American empresario given permission to operate a colony within Mexican Texas, Mexicans displaced by the Mexican Revolution started flooding the city of Houston after 1910 and have been a strong influence in the city ever since. 1940s In 2013 Allen Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that residents of Harris County were "consistently conservative in elections" and that they were according to a Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research opinion poll "surprisingly liberal on topics such as immigration gun control and equal matrimonial rights for same-sex couples". Harris is regarded as a moderate or swing county in Texas and has been a bellwether in Presidential elections voting for winners of every Presidential election from 2000 through 2012 (both Barack Obama and Texas resident George W Bush have won the county).