This region is also home to Texas’s South Plains subregion, as well as the twenty-or-so-county province known as the Big Country, which is also sometimes referred to as the Texas Midwest. 3 ...

Counties farther south in Texas fared even worse. Jim Hogg County had the lowest score nationwide with a 2.25, while its neighboring Zapata County had a 2.34, Starr County had a 2.41 and Brooks ...

How many Texas counties have you explored? No reason to be shy about it. Even your Think, Texas columnist has not spent time all 254 of them. Over the past 30+ years, reader Irv Smith and his wife ...