Farmers left the rocky hills of New England for the fertile plains of the Middle West.农民们离开了新英格兰多岩石的山丘，到中西部肥沃的平原去。The tensions of the Nixon presidency were replaced by the plain vanilla administration of a friendly, middle-aged, middle-class man from the Middle West.尼克松时代的紧张局面被一届平淡无奇的政府所取代，继任总统温和友善，正值中年，出身中产阶级，来自中西部。