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Economic confidence is highest in Washington, D.C., as compared to the 50 U.S. states, according to a Gallup poll.

“The Gallup Economic Confidence Index is a composite of Americans’ ratings of current U.S. economic conditions and their perceptions of the economy’s direction,” the polling group explains. “The index has a theoretical maximum of +100 (if all respondents rate the economy ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ and say it is getting better) and a theoretical minimum of -100 (if all rate the economy ‘poor’ and say it is getting worse).”

D.C. is the only place in the U.S. with a positive index for 2013, coming in at +19, down from +28 in 2012. (Gallup describes the city as a “clear outlier.”) Massachusetts is behind Washington with -1. West Virginia (-44), Alaska (-32) and (-29) Wyoming are the least confident.

So what does this mean? From Gallup:

Though U.S. economic confidence improved overall, it continues to vary widely across states. Forty-three points separate the most confident and least confident states, underscoring how different the nation’s economic situation looks, depending on where Americans live.

This also means that people now have another reason to complain about “Washington.”