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How about Kentucky, well, Kentucky very strongly Republican, you can see Louisville voting for Kerry
來看肯塔基的情況，肯塔基是明顯傾向共和黨的，但路易維爾是支持克里的
not so Covington in the Cincinnati suburbs, not so Lexington in the Bluegrass Area, that's Republican voting
而位于辛辛那提城郊的卡溫頓以及位于牧草區域的勒星頓都是支持共和黨的
You get into Appalachia and you get some again really bizarre patterns where we can go from a couple of counties here
在阿巴拉契亞山脈地區，你會再次發現這種奇怪的現象，來看一些縣的選情
Elliott County I've mentioned and I've shown here and Jackson County
如圖中的埃利奧特縣以及杰克遜先
Let's just look at let's compare them, let's jump ahead
讓我們來對比這兩個縣的情況，來看這個幻燈片
So here is Elliott County here Jackson County here
這里是兩個縣的對比
Elliott County which voted 70% for Kerry and Jackson County that voted 84% for Bush
埃利奧特縣以70%的票數傾向克里，而杰克遜縣則以84%的支持率傾向布什，而它們的人口結構幾乎相同
and they look just exactly the same: small population, all white virtually, poor, very poor, fundamentalist but low religious adherence rate
人口少，居民全為白人，非常貧困，主流宗教傾向原教主義，但從教率低
Lots of Appalachia actually has low religious adherence rate which I think
阿巴拉契亞附近很多區域的從教率都不高，可能
surprise a lot of people. Many of these areas people who do go to church, go to Pentecostal of fundamentalist churches, but many don't go to church at all
不少的人會為之驚訝。這些地區的確有些人會去做禮拜，參加圣靈教會或原旨式教會的禮拜，但很多人根本不去教堂
Yes, I think it could well edge with legacy of fielding
是的，我認為這是棒球中的守場動作的產物
Because this is an area, that is the most famous for fields in the United States, settled by Scotts-Irish-border Scotts. They had a very
因為這個地區在美國以數量眾多的棒球場著稱，居住了很多阿爾斯特蘇格蘭裔。雖然他們有著
sort of politically egalitarian culture, but also high levels of isolation that topographers had credibly recorded
一種人人平等的政治文化，但他們很大程度上與外界隔離，地形學家對此做了可信的相關記載
and often you had virtual wars between counties, that may have something to do with
再加上縣和縣之間常有摩擦，因而導致了這種投票傾向的差異
