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Worth Information Guide [ 7 THE STATE OF TEXAS The guard units are collectively known as the “Texas Military Forces.” The Texas Military Forces includes the Texas Army National Tulsa Santa Fe Guard and the Texas Air National Guard and the Texas State Guard, OK the state militia. The headquarters of the Texas Military Forces is at Albuquerque Oklahoma City Camp Mabry in Austin. AR NM In 2005 Texas had a gross state product of $982.4 billion, the second highest in the U.S. after California. Gross state product per capita as of 2005 was $42,899. Texas’s growth is often attributed to the availability of jobs, the low cost of housing (housing values in Dallas/Ft. Worth LA the Dallas and Houston areas, while generally rising, have not risen El Paso TX at the astronomical rates of other cities such as San Francisco), the lack of a personal state income tax, low taxation and limited Austin Houston regulation of business, a geographic location in the center of the country, limited government (the Texas Legislature meets only once every two years), favorable climate in many areas of the state, and San Antonio vast, plentiful supplies of oil and natural gas. Texas has 4.6 billion MEXICO Corpus Christi barrels of proven crude oil reserves. As of 2006, Texas, for the first time, has more Fortune 500 Gulf of Mexico company headquarters (56) than any other state (California has 55; ironically, it was due to the move of Fluor from California to Texas). This has been attributed to both the growth in population in Texas and the rise of oil prices in 2005, which resulted in the growth in he great state of Texas encompasses 268,601 square miles, revenues of many Texas oil drilling and processing companies. making it the 2nd largest state in the union, after Alaska. As Texas is the largest international exporter among the 50 American Tof the 2000 census it was also 2nd in population with almost states, with international merchandise exports totaling $117.2 21,000,000 people. Among Texas’ largest cities are Houston, Billion in 2004. Air Cargo World rated Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and yes, Corpus Christi. International Airport as “the best air cargo airport in the world.” Austin is the capital of Texas, located just southeast of the center of Two US presidents were born in Texas, though not the ones you the state. might think. Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th) was born in Denison in Texas became the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Texas gets 1890. Eighteen years later the 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, its name from a Caddo Indian word meaning ‘friends.’ In contrast to was born near Johnson City.