• The share of people who say they’re ‘very happy’ has tanked this past decade to just 12 percent of the population.
• But there are some trends among those cheeriest 40 million Americans from which the rest of the nation can learn.
• They tend to be older women who believe in God. They also value marriage, community, and close personal ties.
• That’s the finding of a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll, which follows other research that show.

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