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Originally Posted by Schertz1
I disagree. The size of DT has little to do with it; Killeen barely has a DT. Round Rock has grown because of Dell, not because of Austin. I will go further and say, "Austin owes much of it's growth to Dell". Williamson County is much larger than Hays County. But before Dell came along, I think It was the other way around. During the 80's, South Austin along IH35 was a high growth area, but after Dell that stopped.
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No, not at all. Williamson county has been bigger than Hays for a long time and the majority of people who live in Williamson county work in Austin.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/population.html
The growth trend in the 80's was probably more north (183 & 35) and west; some south.
Also, while Dell most certainly contributed to growth in Austin, it started as an Austin company and had significant growth (
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o.../DD/dndyy.html) before finally moving to its current headquarters in Round Rock which opened in 1994 (
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18726656.html).
My mention of downtown Round Rock was just to reiterate that historically there was really nothing there to identify with or be independent about except the shooting of the outlaw Sam Bass!
http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=953
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