THE ANGRIEST STATES

Best Life, a lifestyle website, set out to determine the angriest state in America. They used National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics and insurance data to calculate each state’s fatal accidents involved road rage. They combined that with Wired magazine’s investigation into what percentage of each state’s internet comments were angry and toxic over a 16-month period. Then they threw in the FBI’s hate crime data and came up with an algorithm to see how each state scored on a 100-point scale Anger Index.
The Angriest States:
1. Alabama – Anger Index Score: 100.00
2. Colorado – Anger Index Score: 73.32
3. South Carolina – Anger Index Score: 70.42
4. Indiana – Anger Index Score: 64.20
5. Vermont – Anger Index Score: 55.34
6. Washington – Anger Index Score: 46.90
7. Connecticut – Anger Index Score: 43.08
8. New Jersey – Anger Index Score: 42.83
9. Massachusetts – Anger Index Score: 37.39
10. Michigan – Anger Index Score: 33.08
* Alabama is 100%? How is there anyone left alive?
* Do people in these states just wake up every morning and go, “Dang it!”?
* Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts, Washington, New Jersey and Michigan all have legalized marijuana. So much for pot’s mellowing factor.
* You’d think Washington would be higher, what with the murder hornets.

The Least Angry States:
41. Arkansas – Anger Index Score: 8.97
42. West Virginia – Anger Index Score: 7.27
43. Mississippi – Anger Index Score: 7.05
44. Pennsylvania – Anger Index Score: 6.58
45. Maryland – Anger Index Score: 5.58
46. Idaho – Anger Index Score: 5.55
47. New Hampshire – Anger Index Score: 5.26
48. Wyoming – Anger Index Score: 1.37
49. Kentucky – Anger Index Score: 0.00
50. Oklahoma – Anger Index Score: 0.00
* Some of these states definitely seem like they’d be home to moonshiners.
* These rankings may change depending on how many people also get “hangry.”
* Now I’m angry our state’s not lower on the list.
* This Best Life website doesn’t seriously think anybody’s having their best life right now, do they?