article_snippet: The U.S. state you call home may affect more than your accent or whether you call it 'soda' or 'pop.'
article_snippet: Personality and career website Truity surveyed some 12,000 people from each of the 50 states and found that residents of each tend toward certain personality attributes like extroversion or competitiveness more than others.
article_snippet: So where does your state fall in the personality spectrum?
article_snippet: What about your state?
article_snippet: Career and personality psychometrics site Truity surveyed over 12,000 Americans to discover how personalities in each of the 50 states and Washington, DC are distinct .
article_snippet: In terms of introversion versus extroversion, you're the life of the party if you come from the most outgoing state of Nevada.
article_snippet: Truity found that the Silver State was followed by Montana, Arkansas, Wyoming and Wisconsin in terms of extroversion.
article_snippet: As for the less socially forthcoming among Americans were Vermont, Kentucky, South Dakota, Idaho and West Virginia.
article_snippet: Resilient or neurotic?
article_snippet: The survey examined how residents of each state tend to interact with each other and with the world .
article_snippet: Truity's researchers also looked at  how people of different states react to stress and found that the most level-headed Americans can be found in Montana, Alabama, Arkansas, New Hampshire and Idaho.
article_snippet: However, the reverse is true in South Dakota, Delaware, Kentucky, Vermont, Illinois--however, these most neurotic of states surprisingly did not include the notorious nail-biters of New York.
article_snippet: But the Empire State--along with Alaska, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia--was found to be among the most open-minded of states.
highlights_snippet: A study by career and personality website Truity finds that where you're from affects how you deal with other people and the world .