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Gay States Are Happy States?

By The Daily Dish
Mar 17 2009, 4:06 AM ET

Richard Florida looks at Gallup's happy state data and tries to draw connections:
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The gist:

...happy states are also apparently those greater concentrations bohemians (.43), immigrants (.36 ), and gays (.32), as well as states with higher levels of high-tech industry (.22) or those with more innovative potential.

Florida offers this caveat: "This is a first cut analysis and it’s dealing only with correlation or association and not causation, but the relationships are nonetheless interesting."



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