Magic Valley more of a floodplain then a valley Lots of OJ and grapefruit grown here Texas Test 4 John Fradel 12 10 12 Regions Piney Woods Big Thicket extremely polluted Rolling Hills Blue Bonnet Flowers PanHandel Cities Houston Oil Capital of the World U S HQ of Space Extremely Large city Texas M D Supplies Drug Trade Weapons Dallas Cattle capital 1925 Cotton center of U S Exxon At t Southwest airlnes Radio Shack San Antonio Hispanic capital of U S The Alamo is here Institute of Texas culture muesom River front Bar area River Walk American Health Recovery 2nd Class Oil Companies Kangaroo Pilot The Nascar one Clear Channel Communications Radio company owns many radio stations Austin Ultra Liberal Party Capital of Texas Uni of Texas research Center Information Technology center Dell Whole Foods Live music Capital of the World Corpus Christi Biggest Deep Water Port Army Navy bases Army helicopter repair center Rio Grande Valley multi cities Citruis Growing Cotton Maize Sugar Cane 1 Grape 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Distribution Center Warren Air Force Base Casper Oil Capital of Wyoming Wyoming All west Trails come through here Oregon Mormon California trails Jackson Hole Movie Star mountain Homes Tourism because of Yellowstone Grand Tetons Very Democratic Million Dollar Cowboy Bar Grand Teton NP YellowStone NP Devils Tower Np 15 mil pop 14 Largest State Land Very Green environmentally friendly and renewable energy Called the Gem State Garnett gem found here as in Garnett and Gold 65 mountains High technology Ski Resorts and Ammo Irragated agriculture due steppe like land Grows Potatoes Idaho Boise Semiconductor manufactor Chips Micron Hp printers Microsoft HQ of Albertsons and Windco State Capital Horrible Football team Boise State University Pocatello Idaho Falls 300k pop ON company produces Semiconductors Idaho Nuclear research Lab Potatoes Capital Gateway to Yellowstone NP Colorado 5 mil pop The Government employs majority Energy Industry strong 2nd Natural G Coal Oil NOAA HQ National 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HQ of United Potato growers of America Hosted 2 Winter Olympics PF Wasatch Mountains Great Salt Lake Region Dixie tried and failed to grow cotton now old people gather here Utah Arizona 6th for land 14th for pop 7 5 mil pop 40 Hispanic 15 Native American Apache and Navajo 10 Illegal Indians 85 of Land Federal State or Reservation owned Overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Mines 60 of U S s Copper High College Education levels Phoenix 12th largest metro 35 Hispanic 1 Manufacturing 2 Tourism Valley of the Sun Fresh water limitation Air Plane Parts 3 Air Force Bases Uni of Phoenix online school Arizona State Uni Free Port McMorran 3rd biggest mining cooperation on Earth Tucson 1 mil pop 50 Hispanic Silicon Desert 1 Technology 2 Uni of Arizona Catholic Cathedral with Mariachi Band Air plane graveyard Arsco Felps Dodge mining Grand Canyon Np 2 6 mil pop 7th largest state land 87 of land controlled by Fed Gov 10 state owned GDP comprised of 20 gambling 50 tourism Las Vegas 2mil pop 31 mil tourist a 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