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Yes? Ok that's interesting his question is coal mining areas traditionally have intended to vote Democratic
請提問？他提了一個有趣的問題，過去的產煤區通常都會傾向民主黨
although that is changing whereas places like Handford, Tri-Cities Area in Washington are Republican voting
雖然這正在逐漸改變，但在華盛頓州三核都市區的漢德福特卻支持共和黨
I think it has to do with unionization
我想這個工會化程度有關
and also there were many more coal miners many more blue collar workers certainly traditionally with relatively low levels of education
有很多煤礦工人和藍領工人在過去的受教育程度都是較低的
Coal mining used to be very labor intensive as one of the problems in places like West Virginia
過去煤礦業是勞動力密集型的產業，但在一些地區，如西弗吉尼亞
where they've moved away from underground mining which is labor intensive to the strip mining which is capital intensive
煤礦開采從勞動密集型的地下開采轉向了資本密集型的露天開采
and a lot of people have lost their jobs because of that
這導致大量采礦工人失業
but certainly in the old regime if you will, coal mining areas had lots of labors and they were fairly heavily unionized
但在過去的開采形式下，煤礦區是需要大量勞工的，而且這些勞工高度工會化
and still union membership correlates even today with Democratic voting
同時工會，即使在今天也常常與民主黨的支持率聯系在一起
not as much as it did back in the 1950s in the earlier generations but it still does to some degree
雖然聯系已不如50年代那么密切，但仍然有一定程度的影響
whereas nuclear industry much less labor intensive much newer not having that kind of unionization, so that's a good point
然而在核能產業這樣新興且對勞工需求較少的產業則沒有出現那樣的工會化，這是個很值得關注的問題
Yes another question, the question is counties in the west swinging, because of things like water rights issues
好的，另一個問題，他的問題是西部的縣搖擺不定是由于諸如水資源使用這樣的問題
The biggest issue I just suppose is the general move towards cultural conservatism in the Republican Party
我剛才說過很大的一個原因是共和黨逐漸地走上了保守主義的路線
