Most importantly, seriously, the idea of the South as exotic, different, and dangerous is an old idea.

最重要的是,说真的,认为南方有异国情调,独特,以及危险的想法是陈旧的

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Well, the taproot of conservatism you could say is right there in the Old South.

保守主义的根基,你可以说它就在旧南方

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I mean, you should not imagine when I say slaves--just take out of your mind the plantations of the old South, because when you only have one or two slaves, the master is working right alongside them, doing exactly the same work that they are doing, and also instructing them and telling them what's what.

我的意思是,当我们提到奴隶的时候,大家不要想当然地联想到南部种植园,因为当你只有一两个奴隶时,奴隶主必须要和奴隶一起劳作,做着和奴隶一样的农活,并且不断告诉他们要做什么

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Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

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