Texas is the second largest US state after Alaska. With its 696,000 km2, its territory is larger than that of France. It is also the most populous after California (29 million inhabitants). And even though it belonged to Mexico for 15 years, from 1821 to 1836, it is above all one of America’s most iconic states.
Because Texas, for Americans and millions of people around the world, is first and foremost the series Dallas, the story of the Ewing family and its empire, against a backdrop of rivalry with the Barnes family. Between 1978 and 1991, it will convey, through its desert landscapes, its fields of derricks, its traditions and the power conferred by oil, the image of a conservative and prosperous state.
Since then, another Texan family, very real this one, will know how to speak about it, by giving two presidents to America: the Bushes. Politics is never very far in Texas, grappling with the major current issues of the country. Immigration or its recent law limiting access to abortion regularly places it at the heart of the news.
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