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They often are, because they often are effectively supporting similar policies. I think MLK wrote about this quite well in Letter from a Birmingham Jail. If you haven't read that, it's well worth the 20 minutes.
On a more specific note, many centrist Democrats are actually corporate Democrats, and they're supporting many laws that Republican politicians are also supporting, laws that benefit big businesses at the expense of everyone else in the world.
Here are the two paragraphs you're referencing from the letter he wrote from the Birmingham jail in 1963
Oh, so, moderates, not centrists. Yeah.