英语语法分析

I like the openness and directness of northerners.

我喜欢北方人的豪爽和直率。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

You could argue that both Southerners and Northerners shared a certain degree of old-fashioned American localism, attachment to place.

你可以认为南方人和北方人都有一定程度的美国传统的地方主义，对地方的依恋。

Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.

相反，南方的奴隶主误认为9世纪30年代的废奴主义观点是主流，而不是北方边缘的公众意见，于是他们普遍谴责北方人反对奴隶制。