See Congress polarize over the past 60 years, in one beautiful chart
Posted on AllSides July 14th, 2015
From The Left
The growth of partisan polarization has transformed US politics in recent decades, and the effects are especially visible in Congress. Now a new paper in PLOS One (and flagged by Wonkblog's Chris Ingraham) demonstrates this transformation in a particularly cool way.
Six researchers — Clio Andris, David Lee, Marcus Hamilton, Mauro Martino, Christian Gunning, and John Armistead Selden — have created a visualization of how likely the House of Representatives' Democrats (in blue) and Republicans (in red) are to vote with their own p
