# Looking for a thread...please help **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 26, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-thread-please-help/614074 "2012-02-26T19:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-thread-please-help/614074/1 "2012-02-26T19:47:31Z")
Hi, I’m looking for a thread I am pretty sure exists, but can’t seem to find it using either google site search, or the board’s own search. The thread is about how the democratic and republican parties “switched” or something along those lines since the republican party’s inception in the 1860s. Does anybody else remember this thread? If you do, a link would be a great help, I am trying to show it to someone. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-thread-please-help/614074/2 "2012-02-27T00:17:33Z")
This one? [Have the Democrats become Republicans?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=243041) Possibly this one? [The difference between Republicans and Democrats](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-327424.html) ---
**Author:** ![YourAdHere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/65b543/32.png) [@YourAdHere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YourAdHere)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-thread-please-help/614074/3 "2012-03-04T03:02:53Z")
Thank you very much.