A 2016 paper says that partisanship among America's lawmakers is higher today than at any point since Reconstruction after the Civil War.
"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423
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