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Real movements by voters against the Democratic Party
这些区域的选民打心底抵制民主党
because they are associated to the Democrats with environmental constraints
因为他们认为民主党人提倡对环境进行管制
These places were almost all the land is owned by the federal government it's controlled by the Bureau of Land Management
在这些区域几乎所有土地都是由联邦政府所有的受国土管理局控制
which in the 1980s started putting more restrictions on grazing for environmental reasons
在20世纪80年代政府开始以环境保护为由对当地放牧进行限制
that really turn these counties away from the Democratic Party towards the Republican Party
这实际上就等于把这些县的选票从民主党推向共和党
They're sparsely populated not many people, much more population that we get over here
但这些地方人口较为稀疏，以下这些区域的人口数量则大得多
Utah, south-eastern Idaho and here we can find a close correlation with religion
犹他，爱达荷东南部这些区域的选情与宗教密切相关
Showing leading church bodies
这幅图展示了各地区主流教会团体
The brown here the leading church body is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints more commonly known as the Mormon church
图中棕色区域表示以耶稣基督后期圣徒教会为主的地区，该教会更为通俗的名字是摩门教
and in the counties with the dark circles more than 50% of that county's population belongs to the given church
那些中间有小黑点的县表示该县有超过50%的人口皈依对应颜色的教会
so you can see it's not just Utah by any means, it's the eastern part of Idaho parts of Wyoming as well
可见除了犹他还有爱达荷东部及怀俄明部分地区
and even going into parts of western Colorado and some counties in Nevada as well, especially those areas with those dots
甚至包括科罗拉多西部一些区域和内华达一些县，尤其是那些有黑点的县
Of course not everyone in the Mormon church is Republican
当然，不是每个摩门信徒都支持共和党
Harry Raid of Nevada is a Mormon and is the majority leader in the Senate
内华达的雷德是个摩门教徒他是参议院的多数党领袖
but overall of all the religious groups, it's probably it was certainly one of the most Republican leaning
但总体而言，在各个宗教团体中，摩门教绝对是最倾向于共和党的教会之一
