Texas is the only state that was a Republic before joining the Union. It is the second largest state in land mass and the third largest in population. It occupies approximately seven percent of the total land and water areas of the United States. Texas is the second largest state in the United States with 261,914 square miles, as well as the second most populated state in the United States with over twenty million residents. Texas …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

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