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Actually 1937 is another downturn, so we weren't out of the wood yet
事實上1937年又是一個低迷時期，我們仍未脫離困境
but Roosevelt was certainly given a lot of credit for what had happened in the New Deal
但羅斯福因其在新政中的突出貢獻被賦予了極大的信任
Landon this time won no counties in most of the western states and a number of southern states as well, I mean this was the county level also
這一次大部分西部的州和部分南部的州內沒有一個縣支持蘭登，我是指在縣級的選情亦是如此
An incredible landslide
一個不可思議的壓倒性勝利
I do want to move to the rest of this pretty quickly
我想快點講完剩下的內容
1940 right before World War II, the Republicans nominate Wendell Willkie who had been a Democrat
1940年，二戰在即，這次大選的共和黨候選人是威爾基，他曾經是一名民主黨人
This was a sort of shocking nomination, he was not a politician
共和黨的選擇令人震驚的，威爾基不是一名政治家
He accepted much of the New Deal, but he didn't like the concentration of economic power
他接受新政的很多做法，但他不喜歡經濟權力的集中
is particularly upset about the Tennessee Valley Authority
他尤其擔心田納西河谷管理局的情況
where the government was building dams and creating integrated economic development system and electrification system
那里的政府正在修建大壩，并且正在建立完整的經濟發展體系和供電系統
and Willkie had represented private utilities, he didn't want to see the government taking over utilities
威爾基曾經代表私營公用事業公司的利益，他不想看到政府接管公用事業
so he was nominated and did much better
因此他被提名，并且表現得更好
You can see taking back the Great Plains getting some of the industrial states in the mid-west, At county level map
可以看到共和黨重獲大平原地區的支持,也獲得了中西部一些工業州的支持，在縣級的選情地圖上
you can see that by 1940, the Republicans doing very very well
可以看到，到了1940年，共和黨已經表現的相當不錯了
They lost New York, but they won almost all the counties of New York and major areas sort of in the heartland of the country
他們雖然輸掉了紐約州，但他們贏得了紐約大部分縣的支持以及美國中部的大部分地區的支持
The south not at all, here's the German Hill Country of Texas, so you can see that standing out pretty clearly not well in the west at all
但在南部則幾乎沒有支持。這里是德克薩斯州丘陵地的德國人區，所以你看到這一塊紅色格外引人注目，民主黨在西部的選情也不大好
