Gov. Abbott:
“If Texas was its own country again, we’d have the 10th largest economy in the entire world
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Texas was one of the first states to come out of the great recession .
>>Texas was one of the first states to come out of the great recession .
We never really went into one. We had a bit of a housing bubble and business slowed in some industries but it was worse in the early ‘90s and even early 2000s.