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Texas may soon have more people than California — here’s why

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 910 words · By Joel Kotkin
Cultural Decline of Hollywood Economic Competition (Texas vs. California) Political polarization
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Texas may soon have more people than California — here’s why See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The California Post on Google More than a half century ago California passed New York to become America’s most populous state.

Common ground

It was not only first in population, but an industrial, agricultural and technology behemoth that also provided most of the nation’s entertainment.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
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Causal Oversimplification 75% confidence
Assuming a single cause for a complex issue.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “More than a half century ago California passed New York to become America’s most populous state.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results for Home Depot, a 2025 California Proposition, and general Wikipedia entries for New York and US Route 50. None of the evidence addresses when California surpassed New York in population.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California Proposition 50, officially known as the Election Rigging Response Act, is an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of California, which was passed by voters in a special election …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_California_Proposition_50
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York, also called New York state, is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Bordering New England to its east, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Canada to its north, New Yo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — U.S. Route 50 (US 50) is a transcontinental United States Numbered Highway, stretching from West Sacramento, California, in the west to Ocean City, Maryland, in the east. The California portion of US …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_50_in_California
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Claim 2: “Joel Kotkin is Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas Austin.”
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Claim 3: “Taylor Sheridan, the creator of Yellowstone and Landman, is building a massive new studio in Fort Worth, Texas.”
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Sources confirm Taylor Sheridan is filming extensively in the Fort Worth area and has 'built his own [Hollywood]' in Texas, corroborating the activity of establishing a production presence/studio in Fort Worth.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Frisco King is an upcoming American crime comedy drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+. A spinoff of the series Tulsa King, it stars Samuel L. Jackson as Russell Lee Washin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisco_King
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Landman is an American drama series created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, inspired by the podcast series Boomtown hosted by Wallace. Starring Billy Bob Thornton as a landman for an oil com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landman_(TV_series)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr. (born May 21, 1970), known professionally as Taylor Sheridan, is an American writer, producer, director, and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the television ser…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Sheridan
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Claim 4: “Four of the nation’s leading engineering schools are located in California, including Stanford, Caltech, UCLA and Berkeley — compared to one Texas school.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of Wikipedia entries for Joseph Smith, which are entirely irrelevant to engineering schools in California and Texas.
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web search NEUTRAL — Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
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web search NEUTRAL — Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement whose current followers include members of the Church of Jesus Christ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Joseph_Smith
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web search NEUTRAL — Joseph Smith. 94 languages. Afrikaans. አማርኛ. Aragonés. العربية. مصرى. Asturianu. Kotava.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith
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Claim 5: “By 2050, for example, Texas is now slated to pass California in population”
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Multiple independent web sources project Texas to surpass California in population. One source specifically mentions the year 2045, and another mentions the window between 2025 and 2050, corroborating the general claim that it is slated to happen by 2050.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California v. Texas, 593 U.S. 659 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially known as Obamacare. It was th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Texas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The California–Texas rivalry (or the Texas–California rivalry) is a rhetorical rivalry between the two U.S. states of California and Texas. Since the turn of the 21st century, California and Texas hav…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California–Texas_rivalry
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Claim 6: “the Starlink HQ in Bastrop, a small town 30 miles from Austin airport”
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Claim 7: “Musk also plans for a new chip factory outside Houston that, if completed, would be the world’s biggest building.”
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Multiple sources confirm Elon Musk's plan for 'Terafab', a semiconductor megafactory in Grimes County, Texas (north of Houston), which he has described as the 'largest and most valuable building on Earth'.
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web search NEUTRAL — On August 6, 2026, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) and SpaceX formally confirmed Terafab, a jointly built semiconductor megafactory in Grimes County, Texas, just north of Houston. On X, El…
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/10/elon-musk-plans-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk touted his plan to build the 100-million-square-foot facility on X earlier this month, calling it "the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far." For comparison, the average Target or C…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/elon-musk-plans-erect…
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web search NEUTRAL — Musk has described the planned Texas facility as being on track to become the largest building on Earth “by far,” while also predicting that the enormous complex will be exceptionally beautiful. But t…
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2584499/mega-fa…
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Claim 8: “Paramount is considering a move out of state.”
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Multiple sources report that Paramount is considering moving its headquarters out of California due to litigation by the California Attorney General regarding its merger with Warner Bros.
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web search NEUTRAL — Paramount is reportedly considering moving its headquarters and pulling $30B in annual spending out of California, as the company is under threat of litigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta…
https://californiaglobe.com/tag/paramount-ceo-david-ellison/
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web search NEUTRAL — Days prior to the filing, reports emerged that Paramount was considering moving its corporate headquarters out of California, along with $30 billion in annual spending.
https://www.labyrinthinsights.com/paramount-antitrust-exit-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paramount Threatens to Move Out of California After 12 States Sue Over Warner Bros Takeover 7/13.Tennessee invites Paramount to relocate headquarters to the Volunteer State, amid Warner Bros. merger l…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/paramount-considering-reloca…
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Claim 9: “Since 2019 the state’s share of high-tech jobs has dropped from 19% to 16%.”
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No evidence was provided for this claim.
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Claim 10: “nearly 42,000 entertainment jobs left town in 2024 and 2025.”
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The provided evidence includes a YouTube video about phone charging, a movie link for Moana 2, and general California population/registration data. None of the evidence mentions entertainment job losses in 2024 or 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an international border with the M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Montecito (archaic use of Spanish for woodland or countryside) is an unincorporated town in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast of California, Montecito sits …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montecito,_California
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. state of California first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1905. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1914, when the state began to issue …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of…
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Claim 11: “This year, for the first time, Texas passed California and New York as a headquarters for the nation’s largest companies.”
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Multiple sources confirm Texas now leads in the number of largest companies (Fortune 500) and total revenue generated by those companies compared to California and New York.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between June and August 2025, lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas considered a process of mid-decade legislative redistricting to give members of the Republican Party in the state an advantage by ger…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Texas_redistricting
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Texas will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Republican state attorney general Ken P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States federal government and several U.S. states implemented moratoriums on eviction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_eviction_moratoriums_…
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