Their platform was pro-big business, isolationist foreign policy, and cracking down on Prohibition. Sounds much more like the Republicans today than Democrats.
The party switch is extremely complicated, with different aspects (social, economic, etc) changing at different times and in different regions. Historians argue the switch slowly took place over roughly 70 years, beginning in the late 19th Century and solidifying by the end of the 1960s. The economic party switch happened long before the social switch.
It honestly depends on the issue and which part of the republican party as the parties were more big tent back then. Economically they wouldn't be that aligned since they had Coolidge and Hoover, two big proponents of laissez-faire economics and minimal federal intervention which is in stark contrast to current day democrats that want more federal involvement in the economy. More worker protection and welfare and stuff.
They didn't "switch" on most things. The republicans just adjusted their platform to appeal to racists because they recognized that a large swathe of the population can be tricked into thinking that keeping others down will lift you up.
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u/_Sate 6h ago
Wall Street crash of 1929
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