Texas

[Rahul]

Oh, shit will surely hit the fan when oil goes out.

That will take a while. And when it does it will slowly fade out. I've seen this first hand growing up in east Texas as the oil industry slowly moves west.

It won't matter though. Texas is diversifying it's economy too much for it to hit us too hard.

Texas is a productive agricultural state with the most farms both in number and acreage in the United States.

Texas leads the nation in number of cattle, usually exceeding 16 million head.

The state also leads nationally in production of sheep and goat products.

Texas is king of cotton leading the nation in cotton production, its leading crop and second-most-valuable farm product.

Texas is a leader in cereal crop production.

Texas is also a large producer of watermelons, grapefruits, and cantaloupes.

Healthcare is a growing industry in the state of Texas. The Texas Medical Center, located in southwest Houston, is the largest medical center in the world.

Texas is a top filmmaking state. Austin is now one of the leading filmmaking locations in the country.

Texas is a leader in alternative energy sources, producing the most wind power of any state.

Air Cargo World rated Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as "the best air cargo airport in the world".

Texas is one of the major hubs in the U.S. for development of computer components and systems, as well as software.

Dallas is the birthplace of the integrated circuit, and by some definitions, the birthplace of the microprocessor.

The North Dallas area is called the "Telecom Corridor" or the "Silicon Prairie" for the area's high concentration of Information Technology companies such as Texas Instruments, Perot Systems, and EDS, as well as telecommunications giant AT&T.

The Austin area is often nicknamed "Silicon Hills" because of the concentration of semiconductor design companies including Silicon Laboratories and AMD. Dell's headquarters is located in the city's suburb, Round Rock, and major offices for Google, Facebook, EA Games, and Apple are also open in the Austin area.

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is in Houston. It is a leading hub for the Aeronautics industry.

The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, located nearly equidistant from downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth, is the largest airport in the state, the second largest in the United States, and fourth largest in the world.

The defense/military industry is the second largest sector of the Texas economy, trailing behind the petroleum and gas industry.

Texas (specifically Dallas and Houston) has a large number of defense contractors which creates sizable employment for the state.

Fort Worth is also the home of Bell Helicopter Textron, which manufactures several helicopters for the military, including the V-22 and the H-1, on which final assembly is performed in Amarillo. Furthermore, three major defense service contractors (DynCorp, AECOM, and Computer Sciences Corporation) have substantial operations in Fort Worth.

Other major defense contractors with DFW presence include Boeing (Richardson), Rockwell Collins (Richardson), Vought Corporation (headquarters in Dallas; facilities in Dallas and Grand Prairie), Raytheon (plants in Garland, Dallas, and McKinney), L-3 Communications (plants in Arlington, Carrollton, and Greenville; also has a facility in Waco), BAE Systems (facility in Fort Worth), DRS Technologies (Dallas), EDS and Perot Systems (Plano), Alliant Techsystems (facility in Fort Worth), and Elbit Systems (facility and US headquarters in Fort Worth). The Defense Contract Audit Agency maintains its Central Region office in Irving.