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Legislators' Occupations for Southern Region States- Table 3 - 2007 (percentages)

Occupation

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

West Virginia

Attorney

13.6%

33.3%

30.0%

14.2%

Full-Time Legislator

6.1%

1.7%

1.4%

0.0%

Business Owner

6.8%

8.5%

3.6%

6.7%

Agriculture

6.8%

4.5%

1.4%

1.5%

Retired

12.1%

5.7%

9.3%

13.4%

Business: Executive/Manager

12.9%

12.4%

17.9%

21.6%

Educator: K-12

4.6%

0.6%

5.7%

10.5%

Business: Non-manager

1.5%

2.8%

2.1%

5.2%

Consultant/Professional/Nonprofit

8.3%

6.2%

7.9%

6.7%

Real Estate

6.8%

5.7%

4.3%

3.7%

Insurance

4.6%

4.5%

2.1%

3.7%

Communications/Arts

3.0%

1.7%

2.9%

3.0%

Medical

4.6%

4.5%

5.0%

5.2%

Government Employee: Local

3.8%

0.6%

0.0%

1.5%

Educator: College

2.3%

1.1%

2.1%

0.0%

Homemaker

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Engineer/Scientist/Architect

1.5%

4.0%

2.9%

1.5%

Accountant

0.0%

1.7%

0.7%

0.8%

Government Employee: State

0.8%

0.0%

0.0%

1.3%

Clergy

0.0%

0.6%

0.7%

0.0%

Labor Union

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.8%

Student

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Information Not Available

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

Insufficient Information

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

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