What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: The population of Texas increased by nearly 433,000 individuals, from 27.42 million to 27.86, furthering a growth trend that overtook the entirety of the Southern U.S. “States in the South and West continued to lead in population growth,” explained Ben Bolender, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Branch. Only return the topic.
Population growth in Texas and Southern U.S.