Though both chambers have added more conservative Republican members over the last few election cycles and partisan divides have deepened, the House and Senate are set on disparate legislative trajectories that may well linger for the rest of this Congress and beyond, and may be a dark harbinger for immigration legislation.
But behind the national economic data lies a longstanding regional divide, which has deepened in recent years.
This political structure has deepened the divide in Thailand between those who have and those who do not, he said.
That violence, together with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, has deepened the divide between Jewish and Arab citizens here.
Although the movement has struggled to gain traction in Israel, where the ultra-Orthodox retain great sway over public life, the issue has deepened a divide between the Jewish state and Jews around the world at a time when Israel is battling international isolation over its settlement policy.
The conflict has deepened the divide between the mostly Muslim north and largely Christian and animist south.
Yet Hamas prevented hundreds of Fatah delegates from leaving Gaza to participate, a decision that has deepened the Palestinian divide.
The war raging in Syria has deepened the sectarian divide in Lebanon, where the population of 4 million is split about the conflict in which mostly Sunni Muslim rebels are fighting to oust the government of Assad, a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
"This has deepened the Turkish/Kurdish divide that has been growing since even before Kobane, and the feeling amongst a lot of Kurds that AKP and ISIS were synonymous," he remarked.
The conflict in neighboring Syria has deepened Tripoli's divides, resulting in increased fighting between Sunni militias that support Syria's rebels and Alawite coreligionists of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, who staunchly back the regime.
