What comes around goes around

I am reading Henry Adams History of the United States, the Administration of Thomas Jefferson.  It is as if the North and South Poles are switched around since the Revolutionary war.  The way I read the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, I see a force for federal control in finance, commerce and defense.  In Republican South and Democrat North of the era, I see the anti-federalist, those for states rights and local governance.  In my youth I thought highly of the Federalist and now less so.  On the other hand I thought Andrew Jackson was a crazy man in dismantling the Bank of the United States and now I think he was brilliant in doing so.  The tide has turned so that Democrats descended from Thomas Jefferson act like Federalists. For example Obama care is a Federalist over reach of States Rights. On the other hand modern Republicans who appear more ideologically in tune today with Hamilton's Federalism argue States Rights.