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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So it isn't just States' Rights that's distinctively Southern.

所以说,有独特的南方风格的不是州权利

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