I wonder what it would be like to vote for single issues, instead of people who have a different combination of interests, and maybe they will change their mind later when it comes to policies, yadda yadda.

Also I wonder if the political party opinions are more prevalent in the DC area, and perhaps not so much in other parts of the US?

When I was in Rwanda (about 1 million killed in a month long massacre along tribal and political lines in April 1994, I was there in August), the main question on my mind was could something like that happen here? There are cultural divides and if it were in the interest of those with the means, propaganda messages could reinforce those differences. I consoled myself that it would take too massive an expenditure of time and money to get people worked up enough to kill each other. The people in Rwanda were no different than people here, but the population was considerably smaller and the cultural differences were more at the surface and hence easier to manipulate.
My answer is no, it couldn’t happen here, not as things stand today. Still, I’m with you when I hear the rhetoric that is used to divide people along party lines. It shouldn’t be disregarded and accepted.