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The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Wilson among the " ideologues " of the neo-Confederate movement, claiming that he told Gentleman's Quarterly in 1998 that " We don't want the federal government telling us what to do, pushing integration down our throats ... We're tired of carpetbagging professionals coming to our campuses and teaching that the South is a cultural wasteland.

" When asked what criteria the Southern Poverty Law Center uses, " Heidi Beirich, the law center ’ s director of research and special projects and a frequent contributor to its Hatewatch blog, acknowledged in an e-mail that ' we do not have a formal written criteria.

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