NationStates Jolt Archive

Since back when the country had barely begun, late 1700's, early 1800's...political parties weren't emphasized as much as they are today.

So it would seem to me that voters would vote for Senators and Representatives that would properly vote in favour of their state, and not any political party's agenda.

Today it's quite the opposite. Voters just see Democrat and Republican and follow suit.

Am I correct? Was representation of one's state more important in the past as compared to today?

Yeah, it was. But the two main parties managed to change society enough to entrench themselves and so they are seen more as monolithic organizations and the members thereof represent that organization and its ideas far more than the state they come from.
God, it bored me actually typing that.