These Are The Happiest And Unhappiest Regions In The US Posted by chasef on Saturday July 26, 2014 @02:25PM from the businessinsider.com dept. http://www.businessinsider.com/nber-unhappy-cities-paper-2014-7 ( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/4NAT_MAP.shtml
A dark but humorous interpretation is that the unhappy people in some of these states simply aren't living long enough to report on their state of mind.