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Although the west isn't like the south, you don't get the real except in the Mormon area, you don't get the real high levels of religiosity
西部不像南部那樣，在其他地區除了摩門教流行的地區，虔誠的信徒并不多
Probably the biggest thing has been the Democratic Party is embraced with environmentalism which in many rural areas still doesn't sell as well
還有另一個很大的原因就是民主黨大力提倡環保主義在農村地區完全得不到相應
You have people who were heavily devoted to off-road vehicles
還是有些人的生活很依依賴越野車
to sort of mechanized outdoor recreation hunting, ranchers grazing, loggers these sort of jobs
很依賴一些戶外的消遣方式以打獵，放牧，伐木等的職業衛生
which associated the Democratic Party with environmental restrictions on those sort of activities
然而民主黨提倡的對環境利用進行限制對這些活動影響很大
so that's probably been the biggest issue I would say, it's not nearly as hot button issue now as it was 10 years or so ago
我想環境問題在過去是個大事件，但現在對它的關注程度已經遠不如10年以前
Partly because a lot of the jobs in many areas are gone
也許是因為在很多地方與環境相關的職業已經消失
I mean back to Mendocino County Fort Bragg used to have a gargantuan lumbermill when it was been up there, it's all shut down now
例如過去在門多西諾的布拉格堡曾有一個巨型的伐木場，過去一直在，現在都已責令關閉了
it's as beautiful prime real estate right on the coast and there's big toxic waste problems, so you don't know exactly how to handle that
過去的廠房整潔地點綴在海岸邊，但伐木場存在廢棄物有毒的問題，這都是些處理起來很棘手的問題
but you get counties then like Mendocino moving towards tourism, wineries
但像門多西諾這樣的縣，都逐漸轉而發展旅游觀光業和釀酒業
On the case of Mendocino the underground marijuana economy certainly is vastly important
不過對門多西諾而言，大麻為其帶來的黑色經濟收入，當然也是舉足輕重的
that's associated with a different kind... but that's only in limited areas not every place is going to have that
可見不同地方情況不同……但這只出現在某些地區并非所有地方都有這樣的轉變
so you get again you can see Alpine County we're talking about sort of natural amenities
另一個例子是阿爾派縣，現在的居民大多因其自然風景而移居過去
voters here rather than the more traditional ranchers and those sort of people
已不再像以前那樣是些傳統的放牧者了
