And those Union veterans would get up and cheer,

那些联邦老兵站起来欢呼
"Yay, scars, Democrat scars."

"耶伤疤民主党人给的伤疤"
It worked, it worked in a lot of places.

它起作用了在许多地方都效果显著
The war is only ten years ago,

战争仅仅过了十年
and there are hundreds of thousands of Union veterans.

留下了成千上万的联邦老兵
They are the base of the Republican Party, a deep, broad base,

他们构成了共和党深厚且广泛的基础
especially across the Midwest,

特别是在中西部和西部
which is where they're all moving, and in the far West;

这是他们迁徙的目的地
Civil War veterans are moving west.

内战老兵们都移居去了西部
In the election again the rhetoric got terrible

在选举中煽动使情况变得很糟糕
and when the election was held it was a very violent election.

选举俨然是一场暴力选举
We'll never know, no one will ever know,

我们不知道没有人能知道