Why Texas is Becoming America's Most Powerful State

in nearly every major category for the past several decades Texas has always been ranked as only being America's second largest state when counting by amount of Land Texas has always remained second sitting in Alaska's gigantic Shadow ever since they were admitted as a state back in 1959 there's even a common joke in Alaska that Alaska could be divided in half and then Texas would get to only be the third largest American state then when counting by amount of people Texas has also long sat in the shadow of California the most recent us-wide census in 20 revealed that at that time California had around 10 million more people than Texas and correspondingly when counting the states by the size of their economies Texas has once again long sat in second place to California's larger first but while the Gap in size of land between Texas and Alaska can never be filled the Gap in size of people and economy between Texas and California has recently been narrowing rapidly because for the past 20 plus years Texas has been growing much more quickly than California has been and it's been a long time coming