Every day the latter grows more wealthy and densely populated while the South is stationary and growing poor."

北方每天都在变得更富裕,人口也越来越多,而南方,毫无进步,变得越来越贫困"

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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I would say that typically their impact was greater in the west and the north than it was in the east and the south.

我要说的是,他们对西方和北方的影响,显然比东方和南方更大

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They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

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