Happiness Map

~ Laura

Map1 I've had a lot of fun playing with the NYT's interactive map of the US, which compares the quality of life in the Congressional districts. My districts gets a 69 on the Composite Index, which is pretty good. 

Wyoming and Montana are also pretty damn good. 

What's the Composite Index of your Congressional District?

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11 thoughts on “Happiness Map”

  2. High 60s for us in SE Mass. My parents’ district, i.e., where I grew up, was also high 60s but a little lower. Where we were in Maine was a 65. Hm, districts in NC changed a lot. We used to be NC 4, but our district came up NC 13 on house.gov. NC 13 was a 68 and NC 4 was a 71. I knew we were happier back then. 🙂

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  3. Zooming it to find my district, I was reminded of just how gerrymandered this part of PA is. The Republicans have the whole of PA government, Rep. Murtha isn’t there, and we’re going to lose a seat at this end of the state. Right now, my district is at 64, but I could very easily get put into a district with the happy people for 2012.

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  4. Cool! We were 69 too. Wisconsin appears to be fat, happy, and adequately insured. (for now….Walker is working to change that…)

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  7. 64 (VA 3)
    In this very gerrymandered city, I could move less than 2 miles and be in either of 2 other districts.

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  8. We’re higher than all of you :-).
    The NY Times article proposed that the happiest man in American is a tall, asian-american, observant jew, man, who owns his own business, makes more than 120K/ year and lives in Hawaii.
    and then the found one. Pretty funny.

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  9. Scanning over the map briefly, I couldn’t find anything that was outside the 62-71 range that wasn’t in Appalachia. So, I’m thinking that NJ-1’s 65 is a pretty “low” number, probably based on the fact that we have Camden in our district.

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  11. Yes, the range was very narrow. Difficult to believe that it’s statistically meaningful in any way.

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