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West Virginia I won't spend much time here
西弗吉尼亞 我不打算花很多時間在這
but these are heavy coal mining counties
它有很多幾乎完全依靠煤礦的縣
West Virginia which had been this very Democratic voting state that shifted into the Republican line up
西弗吉尼亞曾經是非常傾向民主黨的 但后來它轉入共和黨陣營
a lot of this has to do with coal
這里面很多因素與煤炭有關
certainly Al Gore was not well liked here strong environmentalist platform doesn't sell very well in coal country
很顯然阿爾戈爾充滿環境主義色彩的政綱在這并不吃香 在很多產煤地區都是如此
but still a lot of the coal mining counties down here are going for the Democrats went for Kerry
但仍有很多周邊的產煤縣 在04年的大選中支持民主黨的克里
the larger urban areas Charleston places like Huntington and what is that?
在規模較大的首府查爾斯頓城區 亨廷頓 還有這個地方叫什么地方來著?
Parkersburg? you know West Virginia
帕克斯堡？西弗吉尼亞我記不清了
even Wheeling actually going for the Republicans
甚至惠靈，都是支持共和黨的
even Morgantown where the university is going for the Republicans
就連大學所在的摩根頓都支持共和黨
Fairmont over here a little bit of high-tech there it went Democratic
這里的費爾蒙特 發展了一些高科技產業 則傾向民主黨
here is one state that has really shifted from the Democratic to the Republican side
我們再來看一個從民主黨陣營 轉向了共和黨一邊的州
Georgia very important state
喬治亞州 一個非常重要的州
because of the vast sprawl of Atlanta you can see Fulton County which is at central Atlanta
由于亞特蘭大城區的肆意擴張 你會看到富爾頓縣 亞特蘭大市中心所在地區
very large African American population Democratic voting
聚集了大量的非洲裔人口 無疑傾向民主黨
DeKalb County over here
而迪卡布爾縣
there are a few African American suburban middle-class counties that's one of them
這里只有少量的非洲裔 是位于城郊又以中產階級居民為主的縣之一
Prince George's Maryland would be another, they tend to be very Democratic voting
馬里蘭州的喬治王子縣也屬于這一類型 這類型的縣都極為傾向民主黨
these are mostly African American counties here, African American counties over there as well
這里都是一些非洲裔聚居的縣 這里也是
what you can't see on this map is how dark red a lot of these suburban fringe counties are
你在這幅圖中看不出一些城郊縣有著多么深的紅色
and if you look at the chart like this, this shows the fastest growing counties since 2000 by percentage, percentage growth and percent Bush vote
來看看這個表 這些縣是2000年以來增長率最高的縣 還列出了它們對布什的支持率
you can see 4 counties in suburban Atlanta that fill this category Forsyth County north-east of Atlanta 83%
你看到4個亞特蘭大周邊的郊縣都榜上有名 亞特蘭大東北部的福賽斯縣支持率83%
this tend to be relatively affluent relatively white counties and very very fast growing
這是一個經濟較為富裕 白人居多且增長極為迅速的縣
