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 | | The population of Texas grew rapidly from 1,591,749 in 1880 to 2,235,527 by 1890 and reached 3,048,710 in 1900. |
 | | Major ranchers in West Texas joined those in South Texas in raising the largest herds in the nation, which grew from 4,894,698 cattle and 3,651,633 sheep in 1880 to 8,543,635 cattle and 4,264,187 sheep in 1890. |
 | | During the late nineteenth century, Texas politics evolved from preoccupation with the sectional and racial issues of Reconstruction and agricultural problems toward concern with more diverse rural and urban economic and ethnic matters, and this diversity limited its ability to focus on specific solutions, except for establishment of the Railroad Commission. |
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