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Also some of these northern counties very heavily Democratic voting
還有一些北部的縣也極為支持民主黨
Taos County up here Santa Fe County, you can see Santa Fe the capital here
如陶斯縣和圣大非縣，新墨西哥首府圣大非坐落于此
This is Las Vegas the city is Las Vegas, Las Vegas New Mexico over there
這里還有拉斯維加斯市，是新墨西哥州的拉斯維加斯
And to explain that very heavy Democratic voting area, we can look at the Hispanic origin, and you can see
要解釋這些地區的高民主黨支持率，可以看看這些地區的西班牙裔分布，圖中可見
how northern New Mexico and a lot of these counties well over 60%, some up to 80% Hispanic
新墨西哥北部很多縣的居民有超過60%，甚至80%是西班牙裔
And this goes back to the late 1600s
這要追溯到17世紀后期
the Spanish thrust up into north America, the major focus was northern New Mexico when the United States took over this in the Mexican War
當時西班牙人大量涌入北美，美國通過墨西哥戰爭奪取新墨西哥管轄權時，已有大部分西班牙人聚居在新墨西哥北部
There was a very well established Spanish speaking population
可見西語人口在當地的居住歷史由來已久
It's quite economically poor, very strongly Democratic voting, you can see the state as a whole
那里經濟欠發達且有著很高的民主黨支持率，就整個州而言基本都是這樣
And certainly George Bush in 2004 and 2000 made a big pitch to Hispanic voters and did pick up some gains
事實上喬治布什在00和04年的競選中作出了很多拉攏西班牙裔的努力，這為他贏得了一些投票
Right now Hispanics are polling about 2/3 for Barack Obama, so that's something that really explains this shift in New Mexico
當前西班牙裔選民約有2/3的人支持奧巴馬，這很好的解釋了新墨西哥轉向民主黨的原因
Las Cruces the Dona Ana County also Democratic voting
唐娜安娜縣的拉斯克魯塞斯市也傾向民主黨
One county here that is a very small county here which is interesting
這里有一個很小的縣很有意思
