• Cartoon: "Kick Rump, Oprah" by David Catrow (1)
  
  
• Texas Beef Group v. Oprah Winfrey (2)
  
  
• Political Behavior Patterns (3)
  • Government, Politics, and Public Policy (3)
  • Political Culture (4)
    • Individualism and conservativism (4)
    • The frontier experience (5)
  
  
• The Land (6)
  • The Politics of Geography (6)
    • Size (6)
      • Figure 1.1 Geographic Regions (7)
    • Regions (7)
  • Economic Geography (8)
    • Cattle (8)
    • Cotton (9)
    • Photo: Cowboy Manuel Silva and cutting horse Corral separate a cow from a herd of King Ranch cattle
  • Oil (10)
  
  
• The People (11)
  • Demographic Features (11)
    • Population distribution (11)
    • Population changes (12)
      • Figure 1.2 The Texas Triangle (12)
    • Urbanization (13)
    • Metropolitanization (13)
  • Racial/Ethnic Groups (14)
    • Native Americans (15)
    • African Americans (15)
    • Hispanics (16)
    • Asian Americans (16)
    • Anglos (17)
  
  
• Some Social and Economic Policy Issues (17)
  • Immigration: Federal and State Problems (17)
  • Searching for New Economic Directions (19)
    • Industry (19)
    • High technology (19)
    • Biotechnology (20)
    • Agriculture (20)
    • Services (21)
  
  
• Texas in the Course of National Affairs (21)
  
  
• Meeting New Challenges (22)
  • Environmental Protection (22)
  • Education for Economic Development (23)
  • Poverty and Social Problems (23)
  • Restructuring the Economy (24)
  
  
• Looking Ahead (25)
  
  
• Notes (25)
  
  
• Key Terms and Concepts (27)
  
  
• Selected Reading: "El Paso-Juarez: In the Foothills of the Future" by Research Division, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts (28)
  • Bilingual by Necessity (28)
  • Finding the Real Border (29)
  • Cities that Have Seen It All (29)
  • Bound by a Reckless Symbiosis (30)
  • Challenges and Opportunities (30)