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

不 不行 没有南部选票我们赢不了。

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

我开车去不同漫画书店包括本地 南部 新泽西州书店。

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

在 Pete 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。

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

他怀疑一个名字与“Osama”押选人能否获得下州选票。

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，只要我所在芝加哥选区和下州选区居民彼此陌生，我们政治就永远不会真正改变。

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——有己开车，但更多是和 Jeremiah Posedel 或 Anita Decker 一起旅行，这两位才华横溢员工在那里管理我业务。

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，这我下州主任 Jeremiah 接到了预遣人员电话。

The first time we made the trip, I could tell he was a little nervous about how folks downstate might react to a Black lawyer from Chicago with an Arab-sounding name.

我们第一次旅行，我看得出来他有点紧张，担心下州人们可能会对一位来芝加哥黑人律师做出什么反应，他名字听起来像阿拉伯人。

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.

在与其他六名民主党人初选中，我四处争取工会和国会代表团中受欢迎成员支持，帮助巩固我下州和由派基础。

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全国人口统计数据，拥有繁华大都市、广阔郊区、农业乡村、工厂城镇以及被认为更南部而不是北部下州地区。

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农村白人选民那里获得选票——因为他们感觉到，即使我们在堕胎或移民等问题上没有达成一致，我从根本上尊重和关心他们。