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Here's how people in each state feel about their social lives

Feb 20, 2015, 00:54 IST

South Dakotans tend to be very happy with their relationships, while Rhode Islanders are less satisfied.

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Gallup and Healthways used a variety of measures of well-being in their just published 2014 well-being index. Among them was social well-being, which they defined as "having supportive relationships and love in your life."

States with high social well-being scores are scattered around the country, but the core of the Midwest comes in at the bottom of the ranking:

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Gallup-Healthways

Here are the top ten and bottom ten states in the social well-being ranking:

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Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

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