来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第4集 第4集》
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New York was particularly problematic,纽约尤其难以分类 -
and in some ways some people actually considered在某些方面 人们更倾向于将纽约 -
New York to be more southern than northern.归为南部殖民地 而非北部 -
Jefferson actually said that at the time.杰斐逊当时说过这样的话 -
He thought that New York was in the wrong place--他认为纽约待错了地方 -
that somehow geographically it ended up far more north从地理位置上来说 它本不应该 -
than it should have been.那么靠近北部 -
It should be a southern state.它应该算是个南方的州 -
And what he meant by that was:他那句话的意思是: -
unlike a lot of other states or colonies actually,与其它州或殖民地不同的是 -
not yet states, colonies,当时还不是州 而是殖民地 -
it was organized around great landowners纽约以那些拥有大量土地的