The whites," He said, "Of the South, form a veritable aristocracy which combines many prejudices with high sentiments and instincts."

他说道,"南方的白种人,是名副其实的贵族,他们对许多事物存有偏见,这些偏见中包含他们强烈的情感与天性"

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Everybody is white and what else, a lot of agriculture,

都是白种人，还有很多农业，

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It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

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White Southern defenders of slavery were to some extent like other Americans--products of the Enlightenment.

在某种程度上奴隶制的南方白种人维护者,像其他美国人一样是启蒙运动的产物

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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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And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

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It's one of the reasons white Southerners didn't like reformers.

这是南方白种人不喜欢改革的原因之一

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