![]() ![]() In 2019, he was voted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame's second class of media honorees. In 2015, he was named as a Gridiron Legend in Texas, becoming the third member of the media behind Dave Campbell and Mickey Herskowitz. He's a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Seniors Committee and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee. In 2019, he was voted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame’s second class of media inductees and also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Baylor Line Foundation. ![]() ![]() He is past president of the Pro Football Writers of America. McClain has a plaque in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio as the 2006 winner of the Dick McCann Memorial Award (now the Bill Nunn Memorial Award) presented annually by the Pro Football Writers of America to a writer for his long and distinguished coverage of the NFL. to cover the original Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association. He worked for the Waco Tribune Herald from 1973-76, when he accepted a job with the Chronicle. The change in terms of leadership, the change in terms of how we look - it's inexorable," Joe says.John McClain, a Waco native who graduated from Baylor in 1975, covered the NFL, including the Oilers and Texans, for 47 years at the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in March 2022. Just ask seventh-generation Chinese-Houstonian Glenda Joe. Houston is remarkably practical that way. Cities have to run," Parker says.įor her, running the place means embracing the sociological situation. "Too often what happens in a state capital or in Washington is that it is about parties and partisanship, not about the practical realities of running something. And she's learned a few lessons about governing a place where different cultures combine. She's the only female mayor among the top 10 most populous cities, and she's one of the only openly gay politicians, period. There's no way that you could be a leader here in this community and not recognize that," says Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is a minority among politicians. "You are here to make your fortune you are here to move ahead in the world. Despite crippling humidity, long commutes and a reputation for refineries, Houston's cheap land, affordable homes and low barriers to doing business have lured immigrants from all over. The energy industry remains a huge player, but there's also the Texas Medical Center, burgeoning biotech and a bustling shipping port. "So it is fundamentally transformed in a way that all of America shall transform." "Houston runs about 10, 15 years ahead of Texas, 30 years ahead of the U.S., in terms of ethnic diversity and immigration flows," Emerson says. As the metro area shot to nearly 6 million people, 93 percent of all that growth was non-white. ![]() The city's transformation to an international megalopolis happened quickly, and only within the past few decades. It comes closer to having an equal balance of each group than you would find in New York or Los Angeles. If you look at the four major ethnic groups - Anglo, black, Asian and Latino - all have substantial numbers in Houston, with no one group dominating. He and his research partners put together the 2012 analysis that gave Houston the title of most diverse metropolitan area in America. "There is no majority group here, not even close," says Michael Emerson, a Rice University sociologist who studies Houston's demographic change. But Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing group - doubling between the 19 census to about 7 percent. That's what Texas is."Īt about 35 percent of the population, Latinos make up the second-biggest group in Houston after non-Hispanic whites or Anglos, according to Census numbers. "I also do business I work with universities I also ride horses. I'm half-Chinese I'm half-Irish," she says. "Houston is an immigrant magnet," says Glenda Joe, a Chinese-Texan community organizer whose extended family came to Houston in the 1880s. Only 40 percent of the city's population is non-Hispanic white, and by a Rice University count, it's the most racially and ethnically diverse city in America. To see the speed of demographic change in Texas, look no further than its largest city - Houston. All this week, NPR is taking a look at the demographic changes that could reshape the political landscape in Texas over the next decade - and what that could mean for the rest of the country. ![]()
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