(CNN) While the world was fixated on the coronavirus, the US Census Bureau released its latest county-by-county population estimates.

And their findings make one thing abundantly clear: Texas is going to become the most important political state over the next decade.

Here's why: Growth in Texas is absolutely off the charts.

Of the 10 counties with the largest population growth in the country between 2010 and 2019, six of them are in Texas.

Harris County (Houston) had the second largest population increase over the first nine years of the decade, adding more than 620,000 people. (Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, took the top spot with more than 668,000 new people.)

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