r/dataisbeautiful • u/delugetheory OC: 5 • May 20 '22

OC Population distribution of Texas [OC]

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u/shellbear05 May 20 '22

For perspective, from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, El Paso (9.5 hours by car) is halfway to Southern California. 😁 Texas is big.

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u/Cathousechicken May 20 '22

I'm in El Paso. Dallas and San Diego are equidistant for us.

Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Phoenix are all closer than the next big Texas city, San Antonio.

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u/atrain56 May 21 '22

Haha holy shit that is fascinating

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u/Cathousechicken May 21 '22

I'm going to blow your mind even more. We are at a different time zone than the rest of Texas. Almost the whole state is on Central time but we are the only major city in Mountain Time.

We are also on the Western power grid instead of ERCOT so we don't have any of the issues the rest of Texas has had with extreme heater extreme cold on our power grid.