Burke Matthews, left, and Josh Shipley hold up signs in front of Astoria High School in Astoria, Oregon on polling day.(Photo: Colin Murphey, AP)

WASHINGTON – Divided, we get up.

The red states have become redder. The blue districts have become blue. And the rift between Republicans and Democrats has been widened.

Mid-term elections hotly contested House control by the Democrats, increased the Senate majority for the Republicans and gave each party some of the governorship victories it most wanted. They reinforced the gap that widened between the two major parties at Trump's age.

At press conferences held after Wednesday, President Donald Trump and House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke enthusiastically about the possibility of bipartite cooperation on various issues.

But that can prove to be a distant prospect. In Tuesday's elections, divisions between the two parties were sharply marked, based not only on ideology, but also on race, gender, age, education and geography . This partisan realignment and the political exploitation of the divisions it reflects have contributed to the growing reluctance of some supporters to consider the other side as a pledge of respect and cooperation.

The time of Congressional delegations, including the New England Liberal Republicans and the Southern Conservative Democrats, formerly in improving forces when compromises were negotiated, is over.

Indeed, some of the more moderate House Republicans, most likely to work away from parties, were ousted Tuesday. At his press conference at the White House, Trump mocked their names: Carlos Curbelo of Florida, Mike Coffman of Colorado, Mia Love of Utah, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Peter Roskam of Illinois, Erik Paulsen of Minnesota, John Faso of New York – not to have embraced it more closely. "Mia Love did not give me love and she lost," said the president. "Too bad, sorry for that, Mia."

Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana were also defeated.

More: Elections 2108 Election Results of the Senate, House and Governor of the United States

Republicans are increasingly rooted in rural areas, small towns and suburbs, attracting their most overwhelming support by white evangelicals and voters with no university education, especially men. Democrats are increasingly concentrated in the big cities and suburbs around them, attracting the strongest support from African-American women and educated women.

Both sides represent two Americas with opposite perspectives and priorities. This is reflected in election results and exit polls of voters sponsored by a media consortium including ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC.

This is how voters sort:

By education: White working-class voters were once part of the Democratic coalition, and in the past, white-trained college voters tended to vote Republican. Trump attracted whites without a university degree to the GOP and helped propel those with a university degree to the Democrats. In the previous mid-term election, in 2014, these better educated whites voted for Republican congressional candidates by 16 percentage points. On Tuesday, they supported Democrats by 11 points, or 55 to 44 percent.

In contrast, white men without a university degree supported Republicans by 31 points, or 65 to 34 percent.

By age: The rising generation, 18 to 29 years old, supported Democratic congressional candidates by 12 points in 2014. This preference has become much more pronounced. This time, they supported the Democrats by 35 yawning points.

By genre: Women voted 60 to 39 percent of Democratic candidates for Congress. The largest movement was observed among suburban university graduates. At mid-point in 2014, they supported the Republicans by 2 points. On Tuesday, they supported the Democrats by 23 points, 61 to 38 percent.

By geography: Three of the Democratic senators that Republicans have ousted were in more rural states, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota. Democrats have overturned the House seats in the suburbs of the country, even in some of the country's redest states, especially around Charleston, South Carolina. Kansas City, Missouri; The City of Oklahoma; and Salt Lake City.

The Congress will return to Washington next week for a post-election session. One of the most pressing issues – the need to fund the government or risk a partial shutdown – and one of the most controversial, the money debate of Trump's signature proposal aimed at to build a wall along the southern border.

Partisan divisions will likely be in full exposure, a prospect that does not seem to surprise voters. Post-polling polls led to a bipartisan agreement: nearly eight in ten said that Americans were more politically divided.

Read or share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/election-results-trump-partisanhip-republicans-democrats-divide/1918468002/