Definition of "localists" [localists]

• Plural form of localist. (noun)

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• "The opposition consisted of "localists," later called "states-righters," who preferred a decentralized government."
• "By your logic these people were "localists": they identified with the locality thus they had an ideology of "localism"."
• "You know there are two groups, although this division has always existed, it remained hidden: those for the al-Qaida notion of what you call global jihadists, and those who normally are the localists - the local fighters who are close to the people, he said."