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Trivia Tidbit Of The Day: Part 271 -- Happiness.

What Makes One Happy-

Are you happy? Which of our fellow Americans are most happy?

Judging from some of the emails I get from our left-wing friends, it's not the liberals. Indeed, it's become a relatively well-known fact of social science that Democrats and liberals are more pessimistic than the rest of us. Even when they held power.

Not all that surprisingly, Republicans say they are happier than Democrats and Independents:

In many ways, money does buy happiness. But controlling for income, Republicans are still happier than Democrats within each wealth zone:

And conservatives are happier than liberals, within each party:

Meanwhile, married people are happier than unmarried folks:

Churchgoing people are happier than non-churchgoing folks, people living in the sunbelt are happier than those outside the sunbelt, suburbanites are happier than urban and rural folks, and college-educated folks are happier than those with no college experience.

So, the key to being happy begins to resemble the traditional American Dream. A decent income, a sunny home in the suburbs, with a spouse, a church home, and conservative Republican politics.

Source:
Pew Research Center.

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Posted by Will Franklin · 17 February 2006 01:54 PM

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