The results left the Democrats with three leaders going into the industrial states that come next in the campaign.
It will be the first large industrial state to vote.
The figure for California was still higher at 9.5 percent, the highest among the 11 major industrial states.
Income tax is well below that of other industrial states and the national average.
It set out the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states.
In Congress, it has the backing of powerful members from industrial states.
But unemployment in the state is now 6.8 percent, second worst of all major industrial states.
Our unemployment rate for the first 11 months of 1987 was 4.1 percent, second only to Massachusetts among the major industrial states.
With enormous natural resources, Texas is a major agricultural and industrial state.
This moves the state back "into the lead" among the 11 major industrial states for which the department issues a monthly report.