Posted on 12/19/2009 2:41:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Louisiana really seems to take the term "Big Easy" to hear as it clocks in as the happiest state in America, while New York is the least happiest or saddest.
The list that measures the Happiness level states in America was the result of work done by researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK and Hamilton College in the United States and published in the journal Science.
"The researchers examined a 2005- 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System random sample of 1.3 million United States citizens in which Life-satisfaction in each U.S. state is measured. This provided a league table of happiness by US State reproduced below. This is the first large scale analysis of happiness levels in the US.."
Here is the full list
1. Louisiana
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Arizona
6. Mississippi
7. Montana
8. South Carolina
9. Alabama
10. Maine
11. Alaska
12. North Carolina
13. Wyoming
14. Idaho
15. South Dakota
16. Texas
17. Arkansas
18. Vermont
19. Georgia
20. Oklahoma
21. Colorado
22. Delaware
23. Utah
24. New Mexico
25. North Dakota
26. Minnesota
27. New Hampshire
28. Virginia
29. Wisconsin
30. Oregon
31. Iowa
32. Kansas
33. Nebraska
34. West Virginia
35. Kentucky
36. Washington
37. District of Columbia
38. Missouri
39. Nevada
40. Maryland
41. Pennsylvania
42. Rhode Island
43. Massachusetts
44. Ohio
45. Illinois
46. California
47. Indiana
48. Michigan
49. New Jersey
50. Connecticut
51. New York
Seems like a lot of the ten unhappiest states have Dems as Governors.
District of Columbia is a state?
Oh. That’s coming too.
After citizenship for illegals, or before?
Which one is the drunkest state?
When did we get the 51st state? I knew I shouldn’t have slept in this morning...
9/10 of the bottom ten are solid Blue hell holes, and Ohio is trending that way....
Washington D.C. is now a State. Must have happened while I was asleep or when Tiger was the only news.
Guess Louisiana is the happiest state cause it has Mary looking out for them.
That would (conceivably) be Alaska. I know it USED to be...anti-freeze, you know.
DC?? Nevermind.
Good News!! This HAS to be George Bush’s fault! There’s no other possible conclusion.
Must be because of that whole Katrina thing!
Plus Louisiana got $300M via their whore of a Senator
WISCONSIN. (Highest percentage of binge drinkers in the country).
In addition, it looks like the ten unhappiest have the highest incidence of communist governance, deficit spending, strong unions and envirowacko insanity.
New York is at the bottom because they know that the
light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.
Arizona is the fifth happiest.
Well, it all goes to show you, you don’t have to be smart to be happy.
“When did we get the 51st state? I knew I shouldn’t have slept in this morning...”
Don’t feel bad...POtuS thinks there are 57...
I would say that “happiness” is a tough one to analyze... :-)
I’m gonna have to look at how they did that...
‘the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.”
Taxes will continue to increase in New York also.They’re gonna need to institute an exit tax soon.
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