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Why blue-staters feel blue And the happiest states? Drum roll, please: Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee and Arizona. Eight of the 10 happiest states lean right while eight of the 10 unhappiest tilt left. While the study by no means proves that being liberal makes people unhappy, it does reflect some of the unfortunate implications of living in a blue state. A note on the study. Using data from the 2005-08 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and a 2003 economics paper examining quality-of-life indicators, economists regressed the subjective measure of well-being (how people rate their satisfaction) against the objective measure (states' quality-of-life rankings based on compensating di...