{"id":66147,"date":"2015-03-05T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66147"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:38:13","slug":"the-most-common-job-in-every-state-1978-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/03\/05\/the-most-common-job-in-every-state-1978-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Common Job in Every State, 1978-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR put together a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2015\/02\/05\/382664837\/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state?\" target=\"_blank\">graphic<\/a> showing the most common job in every state every two years from 1978 to 2014. It&#8217;s a fascinating ride from secretaries, farmers, and machine operators\u00a0to truck drivers, truck drivers, and truck drivers. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>1978:<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/181.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66151\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/181.png\" alt=\"18\" width=\"568\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/171.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/181.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2014:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66150\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/171.png\" alt=\"17\" width=\"568\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/171.png 770w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/171-500x301.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/171.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Quoctrung Bui explains some of the trends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Truck drivers came to &#8220;dominate the map&#8221; partly because the job can&#8217;t be outsources or automated (yet).<\/li>\n<li>Much of the work of secretaries was\u00a0replaced by computers.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/17.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing jobs have been sent overseas (but you knew that).<\/li>\n<li>And advances in farming technology means that we can grow more and more food with fewer and fewer people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He also points out &#8212; with a &#8220;heh&#8221; &#8212; that the most common job in <strong>Washington D.C.<\/strong> is lawyer. But he didn&#8217;t mention that in 1996 it was janitors. There&#8217;s gotta be a politician joke in there, too.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/222.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/666.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66170\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/666.png\" alt=\"666\" width=\"577\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/666.png 778w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/666-500x40.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the changes I found interesting, with mostly uninformed commentary. The three boxes represent 1978, 1996, and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Methinks reality television is not telling me the truth about\u00a0<strong>Alaska.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/111.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66165\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/111.png\" alt=\"111\" width=\"577\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/111.png 788w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/111-500x40.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, we know what <strong>Nevada<\/strong>&#8216;s for. Except I guess people used to go there to do stuff and now they just go there to buy stuff.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/333.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66167\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/333.png\" alt=\"333\" width=\"577\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/333.png 783w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/333-500x41.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Dakota<\/strong> and<strong> North Dakota<\/strong>, holding strong.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/444.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-9\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66168\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/444.png\" alt=\"444\" width=\"574\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/444.png 762w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/444-500x91.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><strong>New York<\/strong>, the only state on the list that&#8217;s top job is nursing.\u00a0Take that, <strong>Florida!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/555.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-10\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66169\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/555.png\" alt=\"555\" width=\"577\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/555.png 778w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/555-500x40.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR put together a nice graphic showing the most common job in every state every two years from 1978 to 2014. It&#8217;s a fascinating ride from secretaries, farmers, and machine operators\u00a0to truck drivers, truck drivers, and truck drivers. Click to enlarge. 1978: 2014: Quoctrung Bui explains some of the trends: Truck drivers came to &#8220;dominate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,253,341,290,76],"class_list":["post-66147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-globalization","tag-history","tag-ruralurban","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/03\/172.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66147"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69389,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147\/revisions\/69389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}