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And a lot of the hot button cultural issues today abortion, gun rights, gay rights sort of they weren't on the table at all
还有今天不少的文化热点问题，像堕胎，持枪权，同性恋者权利它们还未被正式公开地讨论
so it just didn't come into play in those issues, but if we look at woman suffrage
所以在这些问题上还没出现派别，但在妇女选举权的问题上
generally was progressive Republicans who were more in favor of that than the Democrats at the time
总体上进步的共和党人比民主党更为支持妇女选举权
so yeah you actually look at the individual issues
所以我们也许应该从单个事件去分析
but it's one of the most interesting things about American political history
这是观察美国政治历史是最有趣的一个角度之一
that you have had these switches of parties and of regions as well
无论是政党之间，还是地区之间都在不断地进行转变
Thanks in the way back, yeah the question is how was Franklin Roosevelt able to create this New Deal coalition
谢谢，后面那位，他的问题是富兰克林，罗斯福是如何建立起新政时期的联盟的
Partly it was just the horrors of the Depression that US economic output decline by 50% or so
一部分是因为大家都对大萧条感到恐惧，美国经济产量下降了50%左右

I mean it was just a massive drop 30% unemployment, so that was just real desperation in much of the country
这个数字是非常庞大的30%的失业率，这使整个国家都陷入绝望当中
and as more active approach that actually was pro-labor but also pro-farmer
新政采取的积极措施，同时为劳工和农民提供了支持
and the fact that he ignored the issue of race in the south
另一方面，罗斯福忽略了南部的种族问题
and something his wife was really concerned about
但这正是他的妻子非常关心的一个问题
she did not like segregation and the disenfranchise on the blacks at all
她十分反感种族隔离政策，反对剥夺黑人的公民权
but the view was that if you upset the southern whites
但问题是，如果你得罪了南部的白人
they're going to bolt out of the party and then we can't hold this coalition together anymore
他们就会背弃这个政党，这样就再也无法维护这个联盟的团结
so the Democrats really soft-pedal that
当时民主党人也低调面对人种问题
certainly up until 1937 from 1932 to 1937 the United States economy really did rebound
从1932年到1927年，美国经济确实复苏了

视频及简介

这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。