John A. Clark, John M. Bruce, John H. Kessel, William G. Jacoby, I'd Rather Switch than Fight: Lifelong Democrats and Converts to Republicanism among Campaign Activists, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Aug., 1991), pp. 577-597
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Clark et al. (1991) studied this question.