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1. Sheila Ryan on March 10th, 2011 at 10:11 pm

   In the middle of the 10 least angry cities in America: Madison, Wisconsin.

   I’d say the overview needs updating as of the last day or so.

2. Andrew Simone on March 11th, 2011 at 1:46 am

   I lived between Newark and Philly, so I get angry.

3. Grace Kelly on March 11th, 2011 at 4:47 am

   Cities that make the rest of us angry. #1 – Colorado Springs.

4. Michael Smith on March 11th, 2011 at 9:31 am

   Sacramento was in about the same spot on the list of most miserable cities.

5. Tycho on March 11th, 2011 at 9:41 am

   I always find research like this rather curious. I wonder how they determine the level of anger a city seethes with. It’s not like you can go up to somebody with some device I imagine would be like a Geiger counter and determine how bad the shit in his or her cereal stinks.

6. Daryl Scroggins on March 11th, 2011 at 9:42 am

   Dallas is an angry city, and it’s at its angriest in the most conservative areas. It’s difficult to drive in cetain parts of the city without encountering road rage. Even by the hospital complex where Cindy works, drivers will lay on the horn when they are behind a car that stops, with flashers on, to pick up a patient being brought out in a wheelchair to be driven away. My sense is that a pervasive state of anger arises from a particular combination of factors in the Dallas area: money begets a sense of personal ability and power that is not actually present; this illusion is often thwarted by “stupid and evil people” who obviate the need for actual reflection; and all are steeped in a religious culture that operates like a political machine that marks “losers” at every turn (just as Jesus would, apparently) while stoking an embattled stance that ties in well with the allure of absolutely unregulated gun ownership.

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