[hedgetrimmer]

Statist: practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.

Statism has nothing to do with the power struggle between states rights and the federal goverment, the term you are actually searching for is federalism.

I also do not accept that many conservatives are "right wing" although being right is much better than being left.

Right Wing:
the rightist division of a group or party
Right
RIGHTEOUS, UPRIGHT
CORRECT
SUITABLE, APPROPRIATE
STRAIGHT
GENUINE, REAL


Left wing:
the leftist division of a group (as a political party)
Left
BEQUEATH
DEPART
DESERT,
ABANDON

[Robson]

Right Wing: the rightist division of a group or party

RIGHTEOUS, UPRIGHT CORRECT SUITABLE, APPROPRIATE STRAIGHT GENUINE, REAL

Left wing: the leftist division of a group (as a political party)

BEQUEATH DEPART DESERT, ABANDON

hedgetrimmer, I'm not sure where the conversation can go if you can only be bothered to define one side as "right" and the other side as "wrong".

[antiRepublicrat]

Statism has nothing to do with the power struggle between states rights and the federal goverment, the term you are actually searching for is federalism.

I stand (sit) corrected.