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No doubt about that
這是毫無意外的
So there is a correlation between Republican voting now and membership in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
可見共和黨獲得的選票與摩門教會成員對它的支持有著密切關系
So it's pretty easy to explain that very heavy Republican pattern
這就輕易地解釋了西部明顯偏向共和黨的原因
There are though some exceptions
不過也有一些例外
The color is actually a little bit washed out on this map
地圖的顏色有些失真
I tried to fix it, but you can find the county here in eastern Utah that just barely went for the Republican Party
我已經修復過了，你會發(fā)現猶他東部的一些縣共和黨僅以非常微弱的優(yōu)勢獲勝
and if we go back much farther back we find this county actually was very strongly Democratic voting in many years
如果我們追溯更早時候的大選，我們會發(fā)現這些縣曾在多次大選中強烈支持民主黨
so now it's just barely Republican and to explain this, I'm going to turn to some maps of ancestry
現在則稍稍傾向共和黨，為了解釋其中的原因，我要給你們看幾幅人種分布的地圖
There's a map showing persons of Greek ancestry per 1000 population
這幅地圖展示的是每1000人中有希臘血統的人數
and there in the darkest category is that county, persons of Italian ancestry in the darkest category
我們看到這個縣屬于人數最多的紅色類，意大利血統人數圖中，該縣也被分入
There is that county and persons of Yugoslavian
人數最多的一類，蘭斯拉夫血統人數
Well basically Serbian Croatian and Slovenia in the second darkest category that's same county
主要包括塞爾維亞血統，克羅地亞和斯洛文尼亞血統，該縣在第二多的藍色類
What's going on here, If I give you the name of the county, you'd probably be able to tell
為什么這個縣如此特殊，如果我告訴你這個縣的名字，你應該就知道了
Carbon County Utah, Carbon County you know it's gonna be a coal mining county
它是猶他州的卡本縣，你們都知道，卡本縣是一個煤礦大縣
and coal mining was conducted largely by immigrants from eastern and southern Utah
而進行挖礦工作的勞工，大多數猶他東部和南部的移民
so even though the Mormons are the largest church, there's a lot of Eastern Orthodox
所以盡管該地區(qū)摩門是主流教會，這里仍有很多東正教徒
There's a lot of Roman Catholics in this county
以及天主教的教徒
