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Embrace it: People of Washington can brag about their good looks

BY Alyssa Kleven  on July 17, 2012 @ 4:58 pm (Updated: 11:08 am - 7/18/12 )

Look to your left. Look to your right. It turns out those around you might not be so bad to look at, because Washington state has been ranked the 8th most beautiful state.

Before you jump down to the comments section to go on about how we're doing yet another story about how Washington is the top or bottom of this or that list - take a moment. An arbitrary dating website has decided that you're beautiful, and that others around you aren't bad looking either.

Well, they didn't say you specifically. The data came from exclusive dating website BeautifulPeople.com. They don't let just anyone join, you have to be elected 'pretty enough' by other members on website. The site claims "people actually look like their photos."

Now aside from that, the results of the state rankings, which ranked Texas first and North Dakota last, were determined by calculating the number of applicants accepted in each state relative to how many people from that state applied.

The Top 5 most beautiful states:
Texas
California
New York
Florida
Maine

The Top 5 least beautiful states:
Michigan
Alabama
Kansas
South Dakota
North Dakota

That might mean Washington's population of single online- dates are more pretty than the average person - or we can use this as an actual sample of pretty people in the state. Meaning that the people on your left or right that you looked at when you started reading this blog post are pretty.

From those folks hanging out at a coffee shop in Belltown, to those down in Olympia, chances they aren't bad to look at.

So thank you Gov. Christine Gregoire; thanks barista down the street; thanks Dori Monson; thank you Sir Mix-A-Lot; thank you Miss Washington; because when we compare all of you, and us, (and yes, it's a little conceited to say it,) we're better looking than the folks in 42 other states.

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Alyssa Kleven, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Alyssa Kleven is an editor and content producer at MyNorthwest.com. She enjoys doting over her adorable dachshund Winnie - named for Arcade Fire front-man Win Butler.
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  • Chris Halliday wrote...
    I'm hideous
    July 17, 2012 6:28 pm
    I'm perfectly hideous. I'll move to North Dakota if I want to be king.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    What the bleep is Michigan doung as worst ???????
    July 17, 2012 6:50 pm
    It should have moved up at least a notch or two when I moved out>>>>>>>>
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    So handsome
    July 17, 2012 7:00 pm
    Dori is incredibly handsome.
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  • Uilleam wrote...
    Pictures
    July 17, 2012 7:01 pm
    In an article about "beautiful people" you have 7 pictures of really ugly people, and one cute Starbuck barista. Were they originally from Kansas? Alabama maybe?
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  • CH wrote...
    Ron Spins try two foot taps in the . . . .
    July 17, 2012 9:13 pm
    bathroom stall.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    CH
    July 17, 2012 10:07 pm
    Has a one track mind.
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  • tuleman003 wrote...
    Just saying...
    July 17, 2012 9:40 pm
    Washington is not in the top 5, nor is it in the bottom 5. So, we are mediocre. And that's today's news.
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  • tuleman003 wrote...
    And in other news,
    July 17, 2012 9:45 pm
    Kasey Kahne, from Enumclaw, won the Sprint Cup race at Louden, NH last weekend.
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  • tuleman003 wrote...
    What happened at the mayor's speech,
    July 17, 2012 9:57 pm
    today concerning the seawall? If nobody is talking about it, it must have been a wash. He probably backed out of it because we, the people, want to know how he is going to handle the DOJ suggestions about improving SPD behaviour.
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  • Newton wrote...
    This so Stupid I want to Puke.
    July 18, 2012 1:12 am
    Garbage Journalism.
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  • CH wrote...
    Your right Ron . . . .
    July 18, 2012 4:25 am
    getting Mittens elected.
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