The list of U.S. states by "happiness index" has been published in the journal Science based on polling which took place between 2005 and 2008. Shocking, the People's Republic of Massachusetts is low on the list, at #43. Maine comes in at #10, which may explain why I am four times happier when I cross the Piscataquis River... Or maybe it's Bob's Clam Shack (in close proximity to the Kittery Trading post: guns + fishing + boats + CLAMS! = Happy Paine). New Hampshire rates at #27, Vermont at #18. Louisiana, Florida, Hawaii, Tennessee, and Arizona fill the top 5.
Oddly enough, there is a strong coorelation between individual freedom and happiness. States with low taxes and costs of living rate higher than their more taxed and expensive brethren. Because this is RFW I would like to point out that the least happy states are those with the most restrictive gun laws. New York (51), Connecticut (50), New Jersey (49), California (46) and Illinois (45) all rate very low in gun freedoms, and very low in happiness.
States with high taxes, restrictive gun laws, and CRAPPY climates (my back hurts from all the global warming... where's Algore when you need him?) rate low in happiness. Even California can't overcome their foolish Hoplophobia (google it). Perhaps if our solons on Beacon Hill aren't too busy stealing the kitchen stove and coming back for the smoke they could look into rolling back some of our restrictive firearms laws. At the very least, perhaps they could end the sales tax on booze (we already pay excise tax, then they tax the tax).
Of course Massachusetts residents would never rebell over silly things like a repressive force confiscating their (assault) weapons, or taxing their booze. That's never happened before, ever... Just check the public school textbooks (if you can get through the hundreds of pages on the noble "Native Americans" we horrible European Capitalist Running Dog Lackey Imperialists brutally slaughtered).
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