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New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, one of the first radio preachers in the country
紐約浸信會牧師斯特拉頓，最早通過電臺傳教的一位牧師
who had this to say about Al Smith, equated him with the urban evils of "card playing, cocktail drinking, poodle dogs
這樣評價阿爾·史密斯，他把史密斯視為城市罪惡的化身：嗜賭，嗜酒，遛獅子狗
divorces, novels, stuffy rooms, dancing, evolution, Clarence Darrow, over-eating
離婚，小說，悶熱的房間，跳舞，崇尚進化論，克拉倫斯，達洛，暴食
nude art, prize-fighting, actors, greyhound racing and modernism"
裸體藝術，地下拳擊，男演員，賽狗，熱愛現代主義
It's an odd mixture in today
在今天看來，這真是一個奇怪的組合
Today you wouldn't be putting over-eating and prize-fighting with modernism
今天你不會把暴食和地下拳擊與現代主義歸為一類
and nude art I don't think so
我也不認為裸體藝術跟它們有什么關系
So you know how political ideas at a real range themselves over time
可見政治理念隨著時間的推移會發生多么大的變化
Well how did Al Smith do? Not well at all
阿爾·史密斯表現如何呢？一點都不好
All right, Democrats taking Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the first time
民主黨第一次獲得了馬薩諸塞州和羅德島州的支持
Although it's almost entirely because of Boston and providence
但這兩州選票幾乎都來于其首府波士頓和普羅維頓士城
rural areas didn't vote for him, but Boston certainly did
鄉村地區沒有把票投給他，但波士頓投了他的票
This area is heavily Irish and then keeping the Deep South only
這片地區有很多愛爾蘭人，民主黨只能守住南方腹地的票倉
Lots of southerners rejecting the Democratic Party, because of its Catholicism Al Smith, Irish Catholic from New York
很多南方人不愿再支持民主黨，是因為阿爾·史密斯信仰天主教，他是來自紐約的愛爾蘭天主教徒
He still got the Deep South which is interesting, so loyally Democratic
但有趣的是他仍然獲得了南方腹地的支持，他們對民主黨如此的忠誠
but the Border States rejecting the Democratic Party at this time
但在當時，邊界各州是反對民主黨的
Well everything changed in the next election, because of the Great Repression
然而下一次大選中由于大蕭條的影響，一切都改變了
