Ok, I’m confused – from our local Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal:
Gallup, Healthways and America’s Health Insurance Plans earlier this week ranked Minnesota as fifth in the country for the overall health of its people. In the case of emotional health, Minnesotans were ranked fourth.
The ranking, derived from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, comes about a week after the Minneapolis metro area came in 19th in BusinessWeek.com’s list of the 20 unhappiest cities in the United States.
In Minnesota, we refer to the Twin Cities as the “metro area” and the rest of the state as “outstate.” Apparently happiness is found in the outstate areas. This distinction is even more pronounced this weekend as our state high school hockey tournament is underway. You have to live here to appreciate the enormity of this tournament.
Anyway, isn’t this a sign that we have way too many polls occurring in this country?