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- One thing about this map though is people in Canada looked at it and said
- 关于这幅地图,加拿大人看到它可能会说
- Wait a minute you Americans have done another geography of Canada
- 等等,你们怎么把我们的版图给改了
- What did they miss
- 这幅图里加拿大少了哪一块?
- Well, not so much .... very distinctive voting pattern that votes for the party Quebecois
- 不是很多。只是把支持魁北克党那个省份纳入了美国
- But it is actually party Quebecois it is fairly left
- 事实上魁北克党是一个左倾政党
- The province they are missing is the Canadian province Alberta
- 图中加拿大少了的省份是艾伯塔省
- sometimes known as the Texas of Canada
- 有时候我们把它称为加拿大的德克萨斯州
- It comes out in the oil it comes out in the voting patterns to be sure
- 它被纳入美国版图因为它盛产石油,当然,也因为它的选举模式
- So that's Canadian correction to that map
- 所以加拿大人对这幅图会有点意见
- Few other things to note about this is
- 还有另外一些要提出来的是
- I was going to use the term cartographic of blue direction of United States for that
- 对了,本来想给你们介绍个说法,叫民主党导向的制图学
- Well, is it the accurate view
- 那么这种划分是否准确呢
- And again, we can go back and forth on it
- 我们又一次回到这个问题的讨论上
- As I said before many people say no, not accurate at all
- 之前我说过,很多人都认为这种划分都不科学
- Not only the American population is at large not very polarized
- 一方面美国大部分人口是中立的
- But actually the geographically structured voting pattern is not particularly polarized either
- 事实上选民的投票倾向在地理上也没有很明显的划分
- If you put it in a scale from 100% Democratic voting to 100% Republican
- 如果我们给颜色设一个范围,100%支持民主党为蓝,100%支持共和党为红
- We get a purple America
- 我们会看到一个紫色的美国
- Here, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho they look pretty red
- 这幅图中,犹他州,怀俄明州和爱达荷州看起来比较偏红
- Massachusetts, Vermont went pretty blue
- 马萨诸塞州和佛蒙特州看起来比较偏蓝
- But just like everything else is fairly purple
- 其他区域大部分都是紫色的
- A different take on the issue
- 这是从另一个角度来看选情的分布
- And I'll be showing a number of maps both later today
- 我还会给你们看很多地图
- and through this course that try to show you the in betweenness of a lot of these voting patterns that we can see
- 让你们在课程中认识到,其实在大选中有很多地区都处于中间状态
- One thing else that I'm going to do is take you all the way back historically
- 我还会给你们讲一些历史上的美国大选
- Most of the course is gonna focus on the recent period
- 课程的主要精力集中在比较近期的大选
- 2000, 2004, 2008 will occupy most of our time
- 2000、2004、2008年的大选我们会用大部分时间来讲
- We're also going to explore the history of this
- 我们也会一起探索这些大选中的历史因素
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本课程结合大量地图,探索了美国总统大选(包括过去和现在)中的地理学,并且对仅仅简单把美国分为红州(共和党)和蓝州(民主党)这一说法提出挑战。现实中,美国社会两党的情况,远比这种简单的两分法要复杂。
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