The family also divides over the business of news.
Both sides had to bridge wide divides over the scope of the Syrian arsenal and the way in which the deal will be enforced.
The county also featured one of the state's sharpest political divides over the issue of secession: the vote to hold a convention lost by a 532-to-345 margin.
Partisan divides over the role and scope of government are even deeper now, with the procedures of government thrown into such chaos that Republican senators took to the floor last week to offer something close to a comedy roast of one of their own, Ted Cruz of Texas.
"At this stage we want to just have the kind of conversation that we haven't really had with each other across these divides over the years," he said.
On the eve of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, there remain significant divides over the timing and scope of exit strategies from monetary accommodation, the path toward fiscal consolidation and the drive for financial regulatory reform.
