The Chicago area, you go downstate, it's a different story.

芝加哥地区，你往南走，情况就完了。

No. No, we can't win without downstate anymore.

行 没有南部的票我们赢了。

I was driving around to different comic book stores here, downstate, and in New Jersey.

我开车去的漫画书店包括本地 南部 新泽西州的书店。

In a primary race against six other Democrats, I went about lining up endorsements from unions and popular members of our congressional delegation, helping to shore up my downstate and liberal bases.

在与其他六名主党人的初中，我四处争取工会和国会代表团中受欢迎的成员的支持，帮助巩固我的下州和由派基础。

Every couple of weeks, I'd head downstate—sometimes driving myself but more often traveling with Jeremiah Posedel or Anita Decker, the two talented staffers running my operations there.

每隔几周，我就会去往下州——有时己开车，但更多时候是和 Jeremiah Posedel 或 Anita Decker 一起旅行，这两位才华横溢的员工在里管理我的业务。

And he doubted a candidate whose name rhymed with " Osama" could get downstate votes.

他怀疑一个名字与“Osama”押韵的候人能否获得下州的票。

It's why I'd gotten votes from rural white voters in downstate Illinois and Iowa—because they sensed, even when we didn't agree on an issue like abortion or immigration, that I fundamentally respected and cared about them.

这就是为什么我从伊利诺伊州和艾奥瓦州南部的农村白人里获得票——因为他们感觉到，即使我们在堕胎或移等问题上没有达成一致，我从根本上尊重和关心他们。

Under Pete's supervision, the team set up offices in Washington, Chicago, and several downstate locations.

在 Pete 的监督下，该团队在华盛顿、芝加哥和几个下州地点设立了办事处。

We were a few minutes from our first stop, rolling down the highway, when Jeremiah, my downstate director, got a call from the advance staff.

我们离第一站只有几分钟，沿着高速公路行驶，这时我的下州主任 Jeremiah 接到了预遣人员的电话。

As long as the residents of my Chicago district and districts downstate remained strangers to one another, I realized, our politics would never truly change.

我意识到，只要我所在的芝加哥区和下州区的居彼此陌生，我们的政治就永远会真正改变。

Of all fifty states, Illinois best represented the demographics of the nation, home to a teeming metropolis, sprawling suburbs, farm country, factory towns, and a downstate region considered more southern than northern.

在所有 50 个州中，伊利诺伊州最能代表国的人口统计数据，拥有繁华的大都市、广阔的郊区、农业乡村、工厂城镇以及被认为更南部而是北部的下州地区。