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Texas Panhandle

Index Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. [1]

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States.

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Armstrong County, Texas

Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Booker, Texas

Booker is a town in Lipscomb and Ochiltree Counties in the U.S. state of Texas and named for B.F. Booker, a civil engineer for the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway.

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Borger, Texas

Borger is the largest city in Hutchinson County, Texas, United States.

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Bovina, Texas

Bovina is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States.

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Briscoe County, Texas

Briscoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in Randall County in the Texas Panhandle.

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Cactus, Texas

Cactus is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States, along U.S. Route 287.

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Canadian River

The Canadian River is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River in the United States.

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Canadian, Texas

Canadian is a city in and the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, United States.

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Canyon, Texas

Canyon is a city in, and the county seat of, Randall County, Texas, United States.

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Caprock Escarpment

The Caprock Escarpment is a term used in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico to describe the geographical transition point between the level high plains of the Llano Estacado and the surrounding rolling terrain.

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Carson County, Texas

Carson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Castro County, Texas

Castro County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Childress County, Texas

Childress County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Childress, Texas

Childress (established 1887; incorporated 1890) is a city in Childress County, Texas, United States.

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Clarendon, Texas

Clarendon is a city in Donley County, Texas, United States.

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Claude, Texas

Claude is a city in and the county seat of Armstrong County, Texas, United States.

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Collingsworth County, Texas

Collingsworth County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Conservatism in the United States

American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.

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Cook Partisan Voting Index

The Cook Partisan Voting Index, often abbreviated as CPVI or simply PVI, is a measurement of how strongly a United States congressional district or state leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party, compared to the nation as a whole.

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Dalhart, Texas

Dalhart is a city in Dallam and Hartley counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and the county seat of Dallam County.

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Dallam County, Texas

Dallam County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Deaf Smith County, Texas

Deaf Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Dimmitt, Texas

Dimmitt is a city and county seat in Castro County, Texas, United States.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Donley County, Texas

Donley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dumas, Texas

Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States.

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Fort Elliott

Fort Elliott was a United States Army post in the Texas Panhandle, operational between 1875 and 1890 and named for Major Joel H. Elliott, a casualty of the Battle of Washita River in 1868.

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Fort Worth and Denver Railway

The Fort Worth and Denver Railway, nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region.

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Friona, Texas

Friona is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States.

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Fritch, Texas

Fritch is a city in Hutchinson and Moore counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Gray County, Texas

Gray County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Gruver, Texas

Gruver is a city in Hansford County, Texas, United States.

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Hall County, Texas

Hall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Handbook of Texas

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

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Hansford County, Texas

Hansford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Happy, Texas

Happy is a town in Randall and Swisher Counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hartley County, Texas

Hartley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hemphill County, Texas

Hemphill County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Hereford, Texas

Hereford is a city in and county seat of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States.

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High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains mostly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Hutchinson County, Texas

Hutchinson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Interstate 40 in Texas

In the U.S. state of Texas, Interstate 40 (abbreviated I-40) runs west–east through the panhandle in the northwest part of the state.

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Jodey Arrington

Jodey Cook Arrington (born March 9, 1972) is the U.S. Representative for.

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Jus soli

Jus soli, meaning "right of the soil", commonly referred to as birthright citizenship, is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship.

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Lake Meredith

Lake Meredith is a reservoir formed by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas.

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Lipscomb County, Texas

Lipscomb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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List of airports in the Texas Panhandle

List of airports in the Texas Panhandle Airports Texas Panhandle.

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List of counties in Texas

The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state.

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List of geographical regions in Texas

Texas is the second-largest state in the United States, with an area of and a population of 27.47 million in 254 counties.

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Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado, often translated as Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.

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Mac Thornberry

William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958) is the U.S. Representative from the Texas Panhandle.

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Memphis, Texas

Memphis is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Texas, United States.

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Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood.

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Mobeetie, Texas

Mobeetie is a city in northwestern Wheeler County, Texas, United States, located on Sweetwater Creek and State Highway 152.

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Moore County, Texas

Moore County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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North Texas

North Texas (also commonly called North Central Texas, Northeastern Texas, and Nortex) is a term used primarily by residents of Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding areas to describe much of the northern portion of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Ochiltree County, Texas

Ochiltree County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Ogallala Aquifer

The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oklahoma Panhandle

The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east.

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Old age

Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle.

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Oldham County, Texas

Oldham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Palo Duro Canyon

Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon.

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Pampa, Texas

Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States.

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Panhandle, Texas

Panhandle is the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States.

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Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum

Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is a history museum on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, U.S.A., a small city south of Amarillo.

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Parmer County, Texas

Parmer County is a county located in the southwestern Texas Panhandle on the high plains of the Llano Estacado in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Perryton, Texas

Perryton is a city in Ochiltree County, Texas, United States.

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Potter County, Texas

Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River

Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River is a sandy-braided stream about long, formed at the confluence of Palo Duro Creek and Tierra Blanca Creek, about northeast of Canyon in Randall County, Texas, and flowing east-southeastward to the Red River about east of the 100th meridian, south-southwest of Hollis, Oklahoma.

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Randall County, Texas

Randall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Roberts County, Texas

Roberts County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Salient (geography)

A salient is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.

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Shamrock, Texas

Shamrock is a city in Wheeler County, Texas, United States.

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Sherman County, Texas

Sherman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Spearman, Texas

Spearman is a city in Hansford County, Texas, United States.

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Stinnett, Texas

Stinnett is a city and county seat of Hutchinson County, Texas, United States.

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Stratford, Texas

Stratford is a city in Sherman County, Texas, United States.

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Sunray, Texas

Sunray is a city in northeast Moore County, Texas, United States.

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Swisher County, Texas

Swisher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Tascosa, Texas

Tascosa, sometimes called Old Tascosa, is the former capital of ten counties in the Texas Panhandle.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas State Highway 207

State Highway 207 or SH 207 is a state Highway that runs from Post, Texas through the South Plains and Texas Panhandle to the Texas/Oklahoma state line.

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Texline, Texas

Texline is a town in northwestern Dallam County, Texas, United States.

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Timothy Dwight Hobart

Timothy Dwight Hobart (October 6, 1855 – May 19, 1935) was an American school superintendent from Vermont, in the United States.

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Trans-Pecos

The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River.

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Tulia, Texas

Tulia is a city in, and county seat of, Swisher County, Texas, United States.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States presidential election, 2016

The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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Veteran

A veteran (from Latin vetus, meaning "old") is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field.

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Wellington, Texas

Wellington is a city and county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas, United States.

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West Texas

West Texas is a loosely defined part of the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.

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Wheeler County, Texas

Wheeler County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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White Americans

White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry.

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2000 United States Census

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 Census.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Panhandle

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