听力文本

No doubt about that
这是毫无意外的
So there is a correlation between Republican voting now and membership in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
可见共和党获得的选票与摩门教会成员对它的支持有着密切关系
So it's pretty easy to explain that very heavy Republican pattern
这就轻易地解释了西部明显偏向共和党的原因
There are though some exceptions
不过也有一些例外
The color is actually a little bit washed out on this map
地图的颜色有些失真
I tried to fix it, but you can find the county here in eastern Utah that just barely went for the Republican Party
我已经修复过了，你会发现犹他东部的一些县共和党仅以非常微弱的优势获胜
and if we go back much farther back we find this county actually was very strongly Democratic voting in many years
如果我们追溯更早时候的大选，我们会发现这些县曾在多次大选中强烈支持民主党
so now it's just barely Republican and to explain this, I'm going to turn to some maps of ancestry
现在则稍稍倾向共和党，为了解释其中的原因，我要给你们看几幅人种分布的地图
There's a map showing persons of Greek ancestry per 1000 population
这幅地图展示的是每1000人中有希腊血统的人数

and there in the darkest category is that county, persons of Italian ancestry in the darkest category
我们看到这个县属于人数最多的红色类，意大利血统人数图中，该县也被分入
There is that county and persons of Yugoslavian
人数最多的一类，兰斯拉夫血统人数
Well basically Serbian Croatian and Slovenia in the second darkest category that's same county
主要包括塞尔维亚血统，克罗地亚和斯洛文尼亚血统，该县在第二多的蓝色类
What's going on here, If I give you the name of the county, you'd probably be able to tell
为什么这个县如此特殊，如果我告诉你这个县的名字，你应该就知道了
Carbon County Utah, Carbon County you know it's gonna be a coal mining county
它是犹他州的卡本县，你们都知道，卡本县是一个煤矿大县
and coal mining was conducted largely by immigrants from eastern and southern Utah
而进行挖矿工作的劳工，大多数犹他东部和南部的移民
so even though the Mormons are the largest church, there's a lot of Eastern Orthodox
所以尽管该地区摩门是主流教会，这里仍有很多东正教徒
There's a lot of Roman Catholics in this county
以及天主教的教徒

视频及简介

这一集讲述了1972-2004年总统大选的历史与过程,介绍了近几届以来红蓝阵营的地理分布变化以及变化原因，对1972-2000年的总统选举进行了简略解释并非常详细地分析了2004年大选，对于全美大部分州的选情都进行了详尽的分析，可以阐述了08年大选前民调的趋势，可以从中瞥见近几年美国总统选举的发展变化。