在对总统唐纳德·特朗普令人震惊的谴责中，南卡罗来纳州投票决定将民主党人安妮·安德鲁斯送入参议院。而且票差甚至并不悬殊。
In a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump, South Carolina voted to send Democrat Annie Andrews to the Senate. And it wasn’t even that close.
就在短短两年前，特朗普在这个他曾以17个百分点优势获胜的红州赢得大选，而这里的选民如今却断然拒绝了参议员达琳·格雷厄姆。格雷厄姆是特朗普亲自挑选的接替其已故兄长的人选，她在一场似乎并不怎么想竞选、也绝对配不上这个职位的竞选中毫无热情地勉强过关。点击此处实时关注美国中期选举结果“我认为我们刚刚创造了历史，”安德鲁斯当晚在查尔斯顿的选举之夜集会上对人群说道。
The voters in a red state that Trump won by 17 points just two years ago, flatly rejected Senator Darline Graham, Trump’s handpicked replacement for her late brother. She had joylessly muddled her way through a campaign for a job she barely seemed to want and certainly didn’t deserve. Follow US midterm election results LIVE here “I think we just made some history,” Andrews told her election night crowd in Charleston.
安德鲁斯并不是唯一的胜利者。还有凯莎·兰斯·博托斯，她在佐治亚州以8个百分点的优势击败医疗高管里克·杰克逊后，将成为该国历史上第一位黑人女性州长。还有已故国会议员约翰·刘易斯的门生、参议员乔恩·奥索夫轻松取得胜利。还有吉娜·希诺霍萨，她将成为得克萨斯州第一位拉美裔州长，以7个百分点的优势击败了三任州长格雷格·阿博特。詹姆斯·塔拉里科也轻松获胜。
Anderson isn’t the only victor. There is Keisha Lance Bottoms, who will become the first Black woman Governor in the nation’s history, after beating health executive Rick Jackson by eight points in Georgia. There is Senator Jon Ossoff, a protege of the late Congressman John Lewis, who cruised to victory. And there is Gina Hinojosa, who will become the first Hispanic Governor of Texas, beating three-term Governor Greg Abbott by seven points. James Talarico also won easily.
在政治立场极其保守且地处南方的密西西比州，参议院选举结果尚未宣布。这本身就是一个惊喜。两年前，特朗普在该州以23个百分点的优势获胜，而现在一名黑人民主党人可能会赢得选举。
The Senate race in deeply red, deeply Southern, Mississippi has not yet been called. That in itself is a surprise. Trump won that state by 23 points two years ago and now a Black Democrat could win.
坦白讲：我很震惊。我曾不相信民调，也不相信民主党人从南方传出的乐观言论。
Confession: I’m shocked. I didn’t believe the polls or Democrats’ happy talk coming from down South.I believed recent history, which showed Republicans rallying around their own and shutting Democrats out of power in statewide races for decades, even as Democrats plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into races cycle after cycle, only to come up short.
我曾相信近代历史，历史显示共和党人在过去几十年里在全州范围的竞选中团结在自己人周围，将民主党人排除在权力之外，尽管民主党人在一个又一个选举周期里将数亿美元投入竞选，却依然铩羽而归。我以为这次还会是这样。
I thought it would be that way again.
民主党国会能做和不能做的事：关于特朗普的战争、关税和签证限制但南方各州也锤炼出了源远流长、历时数个世纪的顽强行动主义。这在周二晚上的选举中发挥了作用，帮助民主党人经受住了共和党人的选区划分操纵以及保守派对投票权的攻击。
What a Democratic Congress can and cannot do about Trump's war, tariffs and visa curbsBut Southern states have also forged a dogged activism, stretching back centuries. That came into play on Tuesday night, helping Democrats weather a Republican gerrymander and a conservative attack on voting rights.
这些举动消除了几个由黑人民主党人保持的席位，但也似乎提振了整个南方的黑人投票率。（参见黑人大学的学生在北卡罗来纳州步行45分钟前往最近的投票站，民主党人在该州翻转了一个参议院席位和几个众议院席位。）部分由于这一结果，少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯有望成为第一位掌控众议院议长槌的黑人。
Those moves wiped out several seats held by Black Democrats, but also seemed to boost Black turnout across the South. (See HBCU students marching 45 minutes to the nearest polling station in North Carolina, where Democrats flipped a Senate seat and several House seats.) Partly as a result, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is poised to become the first Black person to wield the speaker’s gavel in the House.
如果把这些结果仅仅看作是对特朗普的斥责，那就错了。是的，他极不受欢迎以及他选定的候选人对他的政党没有帮助。但这些胜利的基础早已在酝酿之中。
It would be wrong to see these results as only a rebuke to Trump. Yes, his deep unpopularity and his chosen candidates didn’t help his party. But the groundwork for these wins has been long in the making.
南方是大多数美国黑人的家园，依然是该国增长最快的地区，随着白人选民的老龄化和有色人种向南方迁移，该地区的人口结构正在迅速变化。佐治亚州现在是一个少数族裔占多数的州。
The South, home to the majority of Black Americans, remains the country’s fastest growing region, with rapidly changing demographics as Whites voters age and people of color move south. Georgia is now a majority-minority state.
博姆斯曾任亚特兰大市长，若没有斯泰西·艾布拉姆斯组织和登记农村黑人选民并在2018年的参议院决选中险胜，她就不会获胜。安德鲁斯的胜选离不开杰米·哈里森的助力，他是国会议员吉姆·克莱伯恩的门生，虽然在2020年以10个百分点的差距落败，但在克里斯泰尔·斯佩恩领导的竞选活动中筹集了大量资金，斯佩恩目前担任南卡罗来纳州民主党的第一位黑人女性主席。
Bottoms, a former Atlanta Mayor, doesn’t win without Stacey Abrams’ organizing and registering rural black voters and nearly winning a Senate run in 2018. Andrews doesn’t win without Jaime Harrison, protege of Congressman Jim Clyburn, who lost by ten points in 2020, but raised a ton of money in a campaign led by Christale Spain, who is currently the first Black woman to serve as Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
身为儿科医生的安德鲁斯凭借她的胜利，不仅向特朗普发出了强烈信号，也向她的政党发出了强烈信号：南方凭借其多样性和激进主义历史，可以成为民主的力量和堡垒。“南卡罗来纳州——你们向全国展示了什么是可能的，”她说。“你们向全国展示了，在一个党派分裂、充满尖酸刻薄和人身攻击的时代，在一个由亿万富翁、特殊利益集团和华盛顿内部人士主导的政治中，我们不会屈服。我们绝不退缩。”
With her win, Andrews, a pediatrician, sent a strong message to not only Trump, but also to her party, that the South, with its diversity and history of activism, can be a force and a bulwark for democracy. “South Carolina—you have shown the nation what’s possible,” she said. “You have shown the nation that in an era of partisan divides, of vitriol and name calling, in a politics dominated by billionaires, special interests, and insiders in Washington, that we will not bow down. We will not back down. And we will chart our own course.”
“我们将开辟属于我们自己的道路。”从医生到参议员：阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德创造历史，成为首位当选美国参议员的穆斯林，击败特朗普支持的迈克·罗杰斯在佐治亚州，博特姆斯回忆起她的高祖母贝齐·皮克，后者生于1845年，葬在克劳福德维尔一座布满无名墓的公墓里，那里也是佐治亚州前州长、邦联领袖的家乡。
From doctor to Senator: Abdul El-Sayed makes history as first Muslim elected to US Senate, defeats Trump-backed Mike RogersIn Georgia, Bottoms, recalled her great-great-grandmother, Betsy Peak, who was born in 1845 and buried in a cemetery filled with unmarked graves in Crawfordville, also the hometown of a former Georgia governor and Confederate leader.
“我不知道贝齐·皮克为她的子孙后代、为她永远无法见到的后世曾有过什么梦想，但我知道我站在钢铁般的肩膀之上，”兰斯·博特姆斯说。“所以，是的，克劳福德维尔出了邦联的副总统，但今晚它也诞生了你们的下一任州长。今晚应当提醒我们所有人，无论我们来自哪个社区，佐治亚州不由某个特定时刻或某个人来定义。”
“I don't know what dreams Betsy Peak had for her children or for her grandchildren or the generations that she would never meet, but I know I am standing on shoulders made of steel,” Lance Bottoms said. “So, yes, Crawfordville produced the Confederacy’s vice president, but tonight it also produced your next governor. Tonight should remind us all that no matter what community we come from, Georgia is not defined by one moment in time or by one person.”
这就是今晚南方给出的启示。这可能成为民主党寻求扩大阵营、以及一个正在努力应对分裂的过去——和现在——的国家的路线图。关于“新南方”早有议论，旧有的方式、风俗、习惯正在消退。这确实发生了，但断断续续。而这一次是一股浪潮，建立在数十年的努力与希望之上。
That is the lesson the South offered tonight. It could be a roadmap for Democrats looking to expand their tent and for a nation grappling with a divisive past — and present. There has long been talk of the “new south,” with the old ways, the mores, the customs, fading. It happened, though, in fits and starts. And this time it was a wave, built on decades of work and hope.
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尼亚-马利卡·亨德森是彭博观点的政治与政策专栏作家。她曾任CNN和《华盛顿邮报》资深政治记者，从事政治和竞选报道近二十年。
Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.