What's distinctive about the South, especially this Old South?

南方有什么特别的呢,特别是内战前的南方

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And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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If you ask the question why did many Italians leave their homes, especially south Italians in the late nineteenth century and come-- well, go all over the world actually, to South America, Australia, but the largest numbers to the United States.

如果问及为什么很多意大利人离开家乡,特别是十九世纪居住在意大利南部的人们,事实上他们的足迹遍布全球,南美,澳大利亚,但更多的是到美国来了

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He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."

他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,那是在十八世纪八十年代,他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,"野蛮的制度和习性,尤其是奴隶制,种植园主们醉生梦死,自我放纵",然后他总结道,"就像秘鲁的利马一样"

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