A person who believes in or supports centralism; someone who wants power concentrated in a central government or organization.
From centralism + -ist (suffix for adherents of a belief system). Appeared in political discourse during the 1800s as nations debated how to organize themselves.
Abraham Lincoln was essentially a centralist who believed the federal government should control slavery policy nationwide, while his opponents were decentralists who wanted individual states to decide.
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