You have a very, very changing demographic situation in the American South and its political culture has to respond to that.

你可以想象,当时的美国南方,人口流动是非常厉害的,所以当时的政治文化必须做出相应的调整

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In that culture you get more southern American food. So there's that, too.

在那样的文化氛围里，你会吃到很多美国南方的食物。所以，那儿也有这些东西。

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Travelers from England and elsewhere, France, who would come to the American colonies and would travel throughout the colonies, would often comment on this, that somehow Southerners were different culturally, attitudinally, behaviorally.

那些从英格兰,法国或其他地方,来到美国殖民地,四处游历的旅行者们,常常会做出这样的评价,即南方人总是很特别,他们的文化,观念,行为均与众不同

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Southern slaveholding leadership, in particular, were very suspicious of the spread of literacy.

特别是南方蓄奴派的领导,对传播文化教育有相当的成见

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