Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy.

谁能告诉我现代哪一位美国总统,能够在失去南方诸州支持后,还能赢得总统大选的

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There's a very good reason Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy in 1860.

杰斐逊·戴维斯之所以能在1860年,成为南部邦联总统

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.

上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石

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