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Fascinating question, a natural amenity voting patterns, so here you have the Black Hills which has been growing in population in good part,
有意思的问题，以风景宜人区的投票规律在布莱克丘陵附近人口有显着上升
because well as most of the reserves in South Dakota is flat in either farmland or grassland
因为南达科他大部分的保护区不是平原农田就是草地
Here you've got mountains and forests, you don't have skiing that may be part of it
而这里有山有水，虽然没得滑雪也可能是原因之一
And the mountain scenery isn't as spectacular as in other areas, so it's maybe more of a local
而且丘陵地带的景色也不如以前地方壮观，所以可能有附近的人移居过去
I don't think it'll get many people from the west coast or the east it's just something that has that kind of draw
我并不认为这里能够吸引很多西岸或东岸的移民，它只是有一点小吸引力而已
so it's more of a mid-western catchment perhaps
可能就会中西部的集水盆地情况差不多
I'm just speculating here, but it would seem to make sense to me
这只是我的想法，是我的一些判断
Thanks for the questions and comments
谢谢你的问题和评论

Oh, oh here's one thing I wanted to mention here, this is a great map of change in population for counties from 2000 to 2007
我还要讲一讲，这幅表现人口变化的地图，它统计了全国00到07年的数据
Anything in brown here declined and some of these declined precipitously
棕色的区域代表人口下降，有些区域人口急剧下降
I bring this up here because you can see this very conservative Great Plains belt, it's a zone of plummeting population
我要强调这个是因为你看到保守的大平原区域属于人口急剧下滑区
And you can also see some of these northern New Mexico counties as well declining population
同时你还看到新墨西哥北部的县人口也在下降
Overall, this is something that hits the Republicans and the Democrats
从总体上来看，这对民主党共和党都有影响
Democratic counties like Wayne County Detroit, Cook County, Cuyahoga County where Cleveland is
一些泛蓝区如底特律的韦恩县，库克县，克里弗兰所在的凯霍嘉县
You can see the Buffalo Area
还有水牛城附近
You can see places like the Youngstown Area Pittsburgh
扬斯敦区域，匹兹堡等等
These industrial towns real population declines, that hurt the Democrats
这些工业城镇都出现了人口下滑，这对民主党选举不利

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