With Election Day approaching, candidates up and down the ballot are making their final push to reach voters. CBS News Texas has been following the polls and covering political events all year long in a quest to find the Texas State of Mind .
But ultimately, it’s the people who matter and who will decide what happens. In an effort to get a better understanding of what voters across the Lone Star State will be thinking about as they cast their ballots, reporter Jason Allen and a CBS News Texas crew are spending the next few weeks traveling across the state, speaking to people from the Chihuahuan Desert to the Pineywoods.
Last week , Jason traveled 500 miles west to the annual Viva Big Bend music festival in the high desert. This week, we head to a place in the 2011 Richard Linklater movie “Bernie” described as a part of Texas a lot of Texans seem to leave out .
AMARILLO – The Texas High Plains, which includes Amarillo and Lubbock, is a region where population growth is falling behind the rest of the state, according to the Texas Comptroller’s Office. While the region’s gross domestic product makes up just 3% of the state’s total GDP, its contributions to Texas’ agricultural industry are significant – making up about 50%.