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Political culture he identified originally with the mid-Atlantic states
他定义的这种政治文化最初源于大西洋中部州区
And later with Irish immigrants, German immigrants to some extent which he said lent itself to much machine politics and a bit more corruption
随着爱尔兰和德国迁入者的到来，这些地区出现了党棍政治和一些腐败的风气
and a traditionalistic region in the south which is much more higher rococo and culturally conservative
南方则被归为传统主义区域，他们较为呆板守旧，在文化上十分保守
In looking at all these maps of counties and states voting patterns
看了那么多县和州的选情分布
I'm not so sure how well that holds but that's something interesting to think about
这种分区是否合理仍需考究，但它反映出了一些有用的事实
Certainly as I think I mentioned before states like Vermont have very distinctive voting patterns
例如之前我提到的如佛蒙特是个在投票倾向上与众不同的州
which we may be able to link to these sort of traditions
这也许和刚才提到的历史传统有联系

I'm not sure. it's something we can talk about and we can certainly bring it up in the discussion forum
我不确定，但我们可以进行一些讨论，我们可以在论坛上讨论
on the course websites, some of you had very interesting comments on there
在该课程的网页上，我看到你们一些很有趣的评论
and I would thank you and also hope more people will join in that discussion
很感谢你们，也希望更多的人能加入到讨论中来
Well, let's go back now to the history
现在我们继续介绍大选的历史
anyone want to interrupt me with questions or comments please feel free at any time
欢迎你们随时打断我来进行提问或讨论，任何时候我都欢迎
and it is actually the second election and the first was in 1789 but neither of them were significant
1792年其实是第二次大选，第一次是1789年，但这两次大选意义都不大
in so far as they were none contestant election
因为他们都是无竞争的选举
George Washington was the only candidate and he received all of the votes
乔治华盛顿是唯一的候选人，并获得了全部选票
by votes I mean electoral votes, votes in the electoral college
选票我指的是选举人票即选举团掌握的选票

视频及简介

课程以美国总统大选为主线，详细讲述了从1789美国的第一任总统上任到南北战争时期每次大选的详情。期间穿插了英美战争，美墨战争，1820密西比妥协，南北矛盾的逐步激化等历史事件。