有一种说法是，这条河的流向转向了南方，他们只是顺着它，在南方建造了新的城镇。

One theory is that the river's course shifted toward the South, and they simply followed it and built new towns to the South.

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即使在今天，许多南方人仍然认为重建时期是一个痛苦的失败时期，但现在有些人说，内战后南方重建这一时期对于南方创造一个有别于以前的新生活方式是必要的。

Many southerners believe, even today, that reconstruction was a bitter time of defeat.

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在国会中，南方来的共和党人太多了，以至于他们几乎控制了国家共和党，这就使得共和党变得很保守，这种保守是许多非南方人不能忍受的。

There are so many southern Republicans in Congress that they pretty much call the shots in the national Republican Party, making it more socially conservative than many non-southerners can stomach.

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She is very often assimilated to a whole group of southern writers who were working -- in the 1930s and '40s, the "Southern Agrarians."

她经常被和那些活跃在,19世纪30年代和40年代的,一批南方作家们相提并论，“南方重农派“

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It's the moment when Richard really finds his voice and it gives him the strength eventually to leave the South.

那时理查真正能陈述自己的意见,并最终给予他离开南方的力量,但在现实生活中。

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We lost. Loss always, I think, almost always, especially in modern history, has led to longer, deeper, troubled memories.

我们输了,失败一直是,在我看来,几乎一直是,特别是在近代历史上,造成南方人长久深刻而苦痛的记忆的根源

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