许多北方人怨恨总统宝座在仅仅一个任期之后又回到了南方人手中（一项不成文的约定规定总统应该每隔两届由南方和北方轮流坐庄 ） 。
Many northerners resent that the presidency was returned to a southerner after only one term with a northerner in office (an informal agreement mandates that the presidency should alternate between north and south every two terms).