Posted on 12/17/2009 1:50:59 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON -- A new study found that people who report more satisfaction with their lives live in states that score well on things like good schools, low crime and short commuting time, perhaps a first objective look at why some states are happier than others.
The state-by-state list, from happiest to least cheery:
1. Louisiana
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Arizona
(snip)
45. Illinois
46. California
47. New Jersey
48. Indiana
49. Michigan
50. Connecticut
51. New York
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
I’d be happy in a tiny apartment if I had high speed internet and a never ending supply of Ramen Noodles. heh.
Well, I am pretty sure that “A new study found that...” was the same professional, reliable organization that ‘discovered’ that mammograms are probably the secret cause of breast cancer......
A year ago, we made the decision to move from Illinois (#45)to Alabama (#9). Best move I ever made.
By my count, 19 of the lower 25 are blue states.
/grin
“Sun?”
Yup! Ohio-#43. Sun went down in early October. May rise again sometime in May.
Only the airport! I was referring to the political corruption.
“Well since Indiana is at #48 on the list I might want to move to Tennessee someday.”
With one foot in Tennessee and the other in Mississippi I’m sitting pretty.
Uh...Is this....the happiest state?
That noise is nervous laughter across the landscape....
#6
“Is you’all from the south, Sir?”
This mentality expresses itself on the personal level with an expectation that one's happiness is dependent on others as well. If you expect someone else to make you happy, you're never, ever, going to be happy.
Keep waiting for city, the state, or Uncle Sam to bring you happiness.
A good move, but don’t make Alabama like Illinois. Please!
What????
Louisiana is happiest????
Oh wait, why wouldn’t they be with all those federal dollars from hurricane katrina, brad pitt’s hoax, and many many more, and Landruie’s. And to think, we were told they could never recover, all was lost, forever....
Oh wait, Boooosh isn’t in office any more, they can be happy now, right?
ClearBlueSky:
Well perhaps people are happy because despite all the stuff going on in the world, Louisiana is still a state which revives around Tradition, i.e. what G.K. Chesterton described as the Democracy of the Dead, paying attention to our ancestors rather than an arrogant oligarchy that happens to be living at this time.. Yes, there are problems here but most Louisiana cultural and festivals and events revive around Family and Religion, and thus while economics, wars, education, etc, etc, and the related probems rage on, people here have a different take on a life.
So perhaps people here are happy because it is still a state that with the higest religous observation in the country as documented by a 2006 Gallup poll/study which indicated that Louisiana has 58% of its residents who attend Church regularly. This is a pattern that is consistent in other Southern States. So while the average Louisiana citizen may not be as rich as say some Californian or New Yorker, perhaps they are happy and thankful for what God has given them.
So in closing, I think Louisiana citizens demonstrate a higher degree of happiness because of 1) Faith, 2) Family ties and 3) a Distinctive cultural, derived from the French and Spainish, with some influence from the English after we became a state, which tries not to take life too seriously although one can also criticize the excesses of this that somtimes occurs in New Orleans.
NY is hung over.
And Texas was too busy having a party to respond.
South Carolina is #6.
1. Utah: 69.2
2. Hawaii: 68.2
3. Wyoming: 68
4. Colorado: 67.3
5. Minnesota: 67.3
6. Maryland: 67.1
7. Washington: 67.1
8. Massachusetts: 67
9. California: 67
10. Arizona: 66.8
...
...
40. Louisiana: 64.2
41. Michigan: 64.0
42. Tennessee: 64.0
43. Oklahoma: 64.0
44. Missouri: 63.8
45. Indiana: 63.3
46. Arkansas: 62.9
47. Ohio: 62.8
48. Mississippi: 61.9
49. Kentucky: 61.4
50. West Virginia: 61.2
And there's also a survey of the "most financially happy states":
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Hawaii
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Wyoming
South Dakota
West Virginia
Wisconsin
...
...
Rhode Island
Nevada
California
Oregon
It all depends on what you measure. Hawaii looks pretty happy all around, though.
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