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Texas cities make gainer list despite national recession

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Texas cities are growing despite the national recession.

Gov. Rick Perry's office released information Wednesday showing four of the 10 fastest gainer cities are in the Lone Star State, including Frisco at number one.

Other big Texas gainers are: McKinney, Carrollton, Lewisville, Odessa, Midland and Austin.

"Texas is 'the star of the Sun Belt,'" says demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution. "It's big cities, it's oil, it's the suburbs. It's a diversified economy. People are moving there for high-skilled and low-skilled kinds of jobs."

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