After living under that idiot, Jerry Brown for four years, I was a Reagan Democrat. I re-registered GOP a couple of years later.
Give me a recovering Democrat over a Rino any day. The Gipper himself was once an FDR Democrat.
Reagan was a democrat pre 1960s (actually pre 1950s), he was not an anti-Reagan democrat supporting Carter in 1980 and Mondale in 1984 and then converting for the super rino HW Bush.