TEXAS SINCE WORLD WAR II. The last five decades of the twentieth century witnessed the transformation of Texas from a rural and agricultural state to an urban, industrial one. The changes caused new problems and exacerbated old ones for a population grounded in agrarian values. Two-party politics emerged as the state's electorate turned from a near absolute allegiance to its Southern Democratic heritage to one that frequently elected Republican officeholders. The changing demography of the state intensified political rivalries. The high birthrate among Hispanics and their increased migration into Texas made them the state's largest minority ethnic group. Mexican Americans joined African Americans in demanding a more positive political response to the needs of minorities. The federal government abetted their cause through court decisions and legislation that struck down de jure segregation. The sex ratio of the population changed, as women outnumbered men in Texas by 1960. Growing feminism, increasing opportunities in the marketplace, and the developing urban environment led many women to renounce the political, social, and economic roles that they had had previously. Interstate migrations also shaped a different Texas. The state's location in the Sun Belt and its economic boom during the 1970s brought newcomers from outside the rural and Southern traditions. These joined with intrastate migrants in large population centers and forced the legislature to address the needs of an urban society.Population statistics testified to the emergence of an industrial state. The census of 1950 recorded 7,711,194 Texans, a 20.2 percent increase over 1940. The population grew further over the next several decades, to 9,579,677 in 1960, 11,198,655 in 1970, 14,229,191 in 1980, and 16,986,510 in 1990. Texas was the third most populous state in population in 1990, below California and New York, having moved past Ohio and Illinois in the sixties and Pennsylvania in the seventies. The economic boom in the late seventies and early eighties brought some of the spectacular growth; 500,000 immigrants moved to Texas between 1970 and 1975, 1,000,000 more came over the next five years, and nearly 1,000,000 more came in the early eighties. Texans were predicted to outnumber New Yorkers by 1990, but an economic downturn in the eighties prevented this. The net immigration dropped to 32,000 in 1986 but increased thereafter.
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population has greatly hanged and grew a heck of a lot within the time AFTER WW2. In that last wartime summer of 1945, the seeds of a new America had been sown. Not just postwar America — the Baby Boom, the Cold War, the Affluent Society, the sprawling suburbs — but the one in which we live today.
also, It helped explain America’s production miracle. A nation that in 1938 was making almost no weapons was, by 1943, making more than twice as many as of all its enemies combined.
“Never before had war demanded such technological experimentation and business organization,” historian Allen Nevins later wrote. “The genius of the country of Whitney, Morse, and Edison precisely fitted such a war.”
America not only made more weapons than its enemies, it kept making new and better ones. By the end of the war, it was said that no major battle was won with the same weapons as the battle that preceded it; innovation had become a constant.
The Office of Scientific Research and Development, directed by mathematician Vannevar Bush, organized the scientists and engineers who developed many valuable weapons.
Radar, improved depth charges and long-range bombers turned the tide against German submarines; the long range Mustang fighter protected Allied bombers over Europe after 1943; the B-29 Superfortress allowed the Air Force to pulverize Japan with virtual impunity by 1945.
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