to go to the Georgia Secession convention as delegates voted against it.

到佐治亚脱离联邦大会去投反对票
And here was the theory that was at stake.

这是个危险的想法
It was really an argument between waiting till '64,

究竟是等到64年再说
or the argument used by Southern slaveholders now--

还是像南方奴隶主的论调
people from south Georgia, and all over the Deep South--

来自南佐治亚甚至整个南方腹地的人
it was the theory of a shrinking south.

都认为南方正在变小
And I really do believe

我确实相信
this is one of the most compelling arguments

这只是他们对于脱离联邦
they had about secession

作出的最有说服力的论据之一
and it's why they were able to muster enough folks

这就是为什么他们能够聚集起足够的人
to go with them in their revolution.

跟他们一起干革命
The theory of a shrinking south was the idea that

南方缩小的说法是