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Then there are times, when that pattern disappears all together
有時，這些格局又會不見蹤影
and if you just look at maps of states, you don't see any geography at all
有時你從州級地圖上看不出任何地理分布的規律
but if you go and look at the maps of counties then you can see patterns that are very clear and often very persistent
但如果你看看縣級地圖，你卻會發現明顯而持久的分布規律
For example, there much of American electoral history Tennessee was a democratic voting state
例如，在美國大選歷史上有很長一段時間，田納西都是支持民主黨的
Now today it's a republican voting state but through most of the history voting for the democratic party
雖然如今它是個共和黨支持者，但在歷史上更長的時間里它都傾向民主黨
Eastern Tennessee on the other hand very strongly republican voting
相反，田納西的東部則一直忠實地傾向共和黨
From the civil war and before that, actually voting for the Whig party. It's sort of the predecessor of the republican party
在南北戰爭甚至之前，該地區就傾向輝格黨，它算是共和黨的前身
That's a pattern persist to these days
他們這種傾向一直延續至今
much stronger republican voting in eastern Tennessee
田納西東部對共和黨的支持忠實的多
and there're other patterns go on for a long time and then boom, suddenly disappear
還有很多其他的格局延續多年而后壯大，消失
A lot of very strong patterns that existed in many mid-western states disappeared in the 1980s with the election of president Ronald Regan
一些非常穩定的格局曾出現在很多中西部的州，20世紀80年代時在里根獲勝的那場大選中瓦解
And we'll look at some of these as we go through the course patterns
我們在課程中還會遇到很多這樣的情況
Elazar, political scientist another who tries to make sense of some of this
丹尼爾埃拉扎爾，政治學家曾試圖將美國分為幾個部分
Daniel Elazar, generation of XXX, a fairly influential book
他寫過一本很有影響力的書
where he divided states even below the level of state, regions of the country into moralistic, individualistic and traditionalistic regions
在書中他把各州甚至州以下的縣和地區分為道德主義，個人主義和傳統主義三個區域
linking the original Puritan settlers in New England as well as Scandinavian settlers
早期清教徒殖民的新英格蘭地區被斯堪的納維亞（北歐）人殖民的
in places like Minnesota, Wisconsin and later other places of west with a moralistic political philosophy
明尼蘇達，威斯康星等地區以及后來西部的一些地區都崇尚道德為上的政治理論
that emphasis good government reform community, ethos, in the contrast with that individualistic
強調一個好的政府需要改革，團結，和道德風尚，與之相反的是個人主義
