TABLE 3.

State‐level correlations between food insufficiency (FI) rates, FI‐related tweets, and emotions

State	%FI	Anger	Disgust	Fear	Joy	Sadness	Surprise
Alabama	−0.691**	0.210	0.166	0.173	−0.062	0.230	−0.099
Alaska	−0.082	0.014	−0.001	−0.031	0.183	−0.080	−0.382
Arizona	−0.011	0.676**	0.685**	0.402	0.100	0.277	−0.202
Arkansas	0.023	0.161	0.366	0.484	0.392	0.293	0.014
California	−0.263	0.700**	0.705**	0.626**	−0.714***	0.533*	−0.314
Colorado	−0.242	−0.081	−0.132	−0.314	0.086	−0.020	−0.130
Connecticut	−0.374	−0.315	−0.338	−0.227	−0.074	−0.334	0.342
Delaware	−0.110	0.202	0.226	0.168	0.230	0.347	−0.113
District of Col.	−0.002	−0.013	0.102	0.150	0.087	0.196	0.199
Florida	−0.163	−0.008	−0.075	−0.102	−0.159	−0.020	0.156
Georgia	0.078	0.415	0.354	0.384	−0.271	0.449	0.488*
Hawaii	−0.429	0.403	0.452	0.362	−0.108	0.425	0.244
Idaho	0.352	0.438	0.480	0.260	0.223	0.219	0.227
Illinois	−0.051	0.511*	0.566*	0.577**	−0.428	0.325	0.522*
Indiana	−0.233	−0.299	−0.345	−0.465	0.270	−0.388	−0.310
Iowa	−0.382	0.149	0.129	0.056	−0.327	−0.205	0.109
Kansas	−0.133	0.151	0.345	0.352	−0.525*	−0.025	0.178
Kentucky	−0.485*	−0.172	−0.230	−0.034	0.007	0.015	0.127
Louisiana	0.145	0.374	0.260	0.011	0.217	0.047	0.017
Maine	0.172	−0.271	−0.224	−0.076	0.428	0.095	−0.219
Maryland	0.293	0.025	−0.028	0.024	−0.061	0.240	0.497*
Massachusetts	0.638**	0.110	0.134	−0.075	0.230	0.344	0.151
Michigan	−0.110	−0.024	−0.042	0.121	−0.094	−0.139	0.148
Minnesota	−0.469	0.500*	0.459	0.427	−0.040	0.364	0.578**
Mississippi	−0.135	0.124	0.194	0.232	−0.255	0.382	0.104
Missouri	−0.420	−0.010	−0.039	−0.010	0.138	0.414	0.188
Montana	−0.651**	0.238	0.057	−0.278	0.453	−0.467	−0.300
Nebraska	0.159	0.104	0.058	0.198	0.355	0.510*	0.005
Nevada	−0.326	0.354	0.395	0.280	−0.119	0.177	−0.420
New Hampshire	−0.211	−0.415	−0.341	−0.067	0.008	0.277	−0.043
New Jersey	0.069	−0.259	−0.210	−0.165	0.002	−0.337	0.388
New Mexico	0.191	0.443	0.531*	0.426	−0.509*	0.459	−0.010
New York	0.436	0.752***	0.845***	0.866***	−0.600**	0.297	0.271
North Carolina	0.032	0.054	0.066	−0.069	−0.041	−0.135	−0.247
North Dakota	−0.697**	−0.053	−0.256	−0.288	0.347	−0.370	0.013
Ohio	−0.200	−0.151	−0.145	−0.079	0.286	−0.016	0.160
Oklahoma	−0.176	0.108	0.309	0.273	−0.392	0.481	−0.254
Oregon	0.003	0.256	−0.100	−0.332	0.153	−0.179	−0.612**
Pennsylvania	0.410	0.613**	0.533*	0.375	−0.073	−0.141	−0.180
Rhode Island	0.669**	0.490*	0.544*	0.404	0.148	0.439	−0.131
South Carolina	0.623**	−0.018	−0.013	−0.030	0.364	0.313	−0.120
South Dakota	−0.302	0.342	0.260	0.383	−0.156	−0.074	0.241
Tennessee	−0.451	0.098	0.164	0.200	0.076	0.148	−0.041
Texas	−0.119	0.662**	0.712***	0.670**	−0.043	0.612**	−0.148
Utah	0.511*	−0.046	−0.092	−0.252	0.059	−0.017	−0.431
Vermont	−0.260	0.28	0.490*	0.471	0.088	0.543*	−0.427
Virginia	−0.014	0.427	0.435	0.467	−0.007	0.350	0.501*
Washington	−0.024	−0.081	0.148	0.101	0.075	0.032	0.186
West Virginia	0.074	−0.195	−0.197	−0.261	−0.058	−0.398	−0.139
Wisconsin	−0.109	0.592**	0.575*	0.641**	−0.047	0.537*	0.092
Wyoming	−0.245	0.567*	0.343	0.124	−0.213	−0.234	0.109

Note: Green shading is for coefficients that are statistically different from zero; dark gray is for coefficients ranging in 0.300–0.490.

^*** p < 0.01,

^** p < 0.05,

^* p < 0.1.

Source: Authors.