Analyzed is the response of Slovenes and Slovene politicians to the life in the centralized Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. While the majority of Slovenes preferred the autonomistic and federalistic tendencies advocated by the strongest Slovene political party, the Catholic Slovene People’s Party, some supported the ideas of the Slovene liberal party in favor of centralism and unitaristic principles. The author stresses the fact that even though operating in a highly centralized state, in the period between 1927 and 1929 and within the then administrative and territorial units, the Slovene People’s Party managed to at least partly execute autonomous decisions on issues of economic, social, cultural, and educational nature. A similar situation occurred in the second half of the 1930s when the Slovene People’s Party held the majority within the Drava Province Council appointed by the then Minister of the Interior.