I mean, we already kinda knew that, but now Twitter backs it up. Or rather, a three year study by The College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University backs it up.

The research team sampled over 300 million tweets in the U.S., mapped them based on the information provided by Twitter's handy "Share Location" feature, and compared them against the ANEW list, which "provides a set of normative emotional ratings for a large number of words in the English language […] for use in studies of emotion and attention." In other words it's a list of what words are happy (yay!), sad (boo!), angry (WTF?!), or aroused (bacon!).

With that data set they were able to visualize a map. Different regions grow larger as more people are tweeting, and the angrier the language the redder the results.

We're hanging on to this as a handy "places to never visit" reference, but more puzzling than New York's constant rage is California's suspiciously early onset of joy. Seriously, guys? You're THAT happy at like 5 am?

Did your state fare the way you'd expect? Just who ARE the happiest people in America? And how can we crush their spirit?