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It came up basically in certain elections, The first Catholic ever to run was Al Smith in 1928
這種分化是經過某些大選逐漸形成的。第一位參選的天主教徒是1928年參選的史密斯
and there was a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment and he lost votes
當時激發了大量的反天主教情緒，導致他失去了很多的選票
He gained some votes actually in Catholic areas
他在天主教地區獲得了一定的支持
They went to the Democrats 4 years earlier but overall he lost votes
4年前的大選他們也曾支持民主黨，但總體上，他還是輸的更多
Then when Kennedy came in in 1960s, There was a lot of fear that it would be another big issue
1960年代，當肯尼迪參選的時候，很多人擔心宗教信仰會再一次成為一個大問題
And Kennedy went to great lengths to assure the country
肯尼迪盡極大的努力向人們保證
that he was not going to be behold into the Catholic church and he really believed in separation of church and state
他以及與他相關的東西將不會出現在天主教徒之中，他也真切地相信政教分離的原則
It seemed to work pretty well that map you can't find
這似乎非常奏效，在地圖上你找不到
If you go back to the map of 1960s, try to understand why that Kansas county, the Ellis County voted for Kennedy
如果回到這張1960年的地圖思考一下為什么堪薩斯州的埃利斯縣把票投給了肯尼迪
has to do with very heavy German assumed to be Catholic population
這與該地區主要是德國人，尤其是天主教人口眾多有關
German Czech and other immigrant groups in that county, so you can pick it up a little bit
該縣擁有德國人，捷克人以及其他移民群體，這樣你就有所了解了
By and large though, the big gap between the religious and the less religious starts in 1992, it's when you first see it really clearly
大體上看，虔誠的和不那么虔誠的明顯差異在1992年才開始顯現，人們第一次清楚地看出這種差異
In the election of George Bush Senior and Dukakis in 1988, it's only a couple of percent
1988年老布什與杜卡基斯的那場大選中，差異還只是少量存在
It's when Clinton comes in that it becomes strong and then even stronger in 2000 and 2004
到了克林頓時代分化變得明顯，到2000年和2004則更為加劇
So yeah there are world religious patterns, but you didn't have the split between people who go to church a lot and those who don't
沒錯，世界上是有不同的宗教模式，但沒必要把他們劃分為經常去教堂的人和不去教堂的人
